Friday, April 13, 2007

Prices

I have done what you asked


I lit the votives


murmured hymns of abasement

prostrated myself

at the alter

Allowed you to heap
humiliations
on my bowed neck

Burn indignities
into my hot flesh

I submitted to all of this
as you fluttered
around the light
brushing against the heated bulb
with thin translucent wings

never in danger

1 comment:

Bridget M. said...

Beautiful. I sense a huge degree of surrender in your male subject.