Dancing Bear
Dali and Plath Make Love
on The Edge of a Cliff


he looks like Peter Seller's brother
moving his paint brushes in and out
afraid of the open spaces where
the light rushes in and she's so dark
in moods a plummy jam of images
she dances for his curly mustache
his sweet madness she is a Sheherazade
of gray landscapes and jagged stones
oh their lovemaking is as precise
as a surgeon's scalpel slicing the belly
or the chest - it is watching their own
blood pool in an aphrodisiac elixir
their green bottle fly kisses
and watch-dial eyes that bring them
closer to each other closer to the edge
 

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