My Dance With Eve

Tonight was a 

soothing balm

brushed softly

through new leaves

to grace my face.

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Sweet scented April

wooed me

with a perfume

only a goddess 

would wear,

as I stood 

in the middle

of my two acres

clad only in

a bathing suit.

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Immersed in

the warmth

of a spring welling

up around me while

my neighbors had 

they seen me

would have thought

me rather strange

and they would

have been right.

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I do not fit amidst

these natural elements

I am an intruder

who delights

in his trespass.

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Just a speck

of flesh

in the middle

of a vast field

miles from

anywhere

savoring the

night's call.

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I could almost 

see  others all over the world

standing somewhere

outside in their skivvies,

nightgowns, tighty whities

panties and bras.

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Clothing is optional

on the cusp of

Aprils warm breath.

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Perhaps even

in The Ukraine

men in their

government issued

green boxer shorts

stand weaponless

gazing at the peace

only the night can bring

when April dances in.

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Even tiny infants

cribbed behind bars

stir in their sleep

limbs reaching...

s t r e t c h i n g

towards the window,

longing to be out there

in mother earth's

most cuddling womb.

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I wanted to

dance through

fresh shoots of grass,

leaping over wildflowers

that were just peeping out

from a long sleep.

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No moon tonight

it faces away

from such beauty

hiding it's

airless desolation.

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I wanted to just kiss

something, someone

but I was alone

and trees are 

not tender to 

human embraces

so I just stood there

absorbing it all

letting it sway my spirit

into physical words.

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I have been

here before

in years passed

when I often fled

to such nights

and suckled

their sweetness

as a child

of the projects

savoring a dessert

even poor folks

could enjoy.

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I have known

many Aprils

even dated a few

of the human kind

but tonight this April

rivals all in a

marriage of flesh

and fortune

at simply being alive

and watching the season

become the true reason

that I write.

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