Why is it you
whose body calls to mine?
Behind your eyes
that same rabid desire.
The sin never realized –
filling, wanting, waiting –
that handful of flame.
And yet the burning is enough.
The ash would fill my mouth –
a taste – where
your name and kiss had been.
2007 Suzanne Bronson
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem