poetry of jesse wiles

Ode to Obdurate Symbol

Take the matches with piranha fingers You will beg for me first face say You will beg for me first face Inevitable to resist this urge and urge and urge Inevitable the consummation, this union sweat and stench, body pleasing And you will sleep here beneath me

Ode to obdurate symbol is Ode to rebellion thimble

Take the matches because they charm Contemporaneous This place was saved for us And with coil thinned to essence At the overlook where we press Alexander sphere beneath toes We take the matches with singed tips And weep excruciating satisfaction in reverberate canyon echo laughter

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