the taste of June still lingers on my tongue, the velvet-petalled lilies; November offers itself in the face of my bittersweet coffee and sweet company of my books (a forbidden prayer) through valleys of dreams, a guilty pleasure.
lipstick stains on my fingers adorned with garnets, words of Anaïs nin engraved on the shell of my memory: "the moon, the deaf, impassible goddess of desire shining down mockingly".
even as i lie awake in lethargy
i'm in ecstasy of this finite longing for something beautiful, a greater thing than i will ever be, a pleasure for the hungry eye. "For beauty will be Convulsive, or will not be at all !"It's November seventh,
my mind may be hungry, but i'm driven by its desire.