Enclosure
My head is filled
With black gloss
And dark brown rounds
Red in their lights
And a smile as wide
As night itself.
A pale skin,
Arching eyebrows
Smooth and thin as a
Pencil line,
Passion of vision:
I see your face
Your body shaped and slim;
Sturdily
I am sucked in
By your outward self of
Male perfection
Male projection
I am failing in
Against my will
To a heaven of such precision
As I should by now ignore
But I am borne
In an updraught
Too strong to oar against
And all I hear is fierce: a
Roaring of winds
I feel the blast against
My skin:
The furore of the elements
The tightening of you
Inexorably fencing me in.
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