creosote bush,
the prairie alchemist,
pre-dawn crowing of a
cock, take it's head, the
red light glowing dim,

bedroll smells
of lubricated latex,
woman's sex and saddle
soap, coven of coyote skulls,
bleached bones, latigo rope,
my knees to my breasts, I watched
her put a bead on me, her down on one
knee, in modern parlance, to prick me with
the occult of the pitchfork tines would occupy
her for decades... she went back to a pioneer
colony of muralists, painted interiors of saloons,
grew herb in brass spittoons, Cotton Mather lost
to Jesse James, Aleister Crowley rode bareback,
Calamity Jane oiled Annie Oakley's hames,

I found Topaz
in the barbwire,
faceted lust, tamed
it will never be, f***ed
her fire, woman's hide rubbed
off on me, leather strapped on the
down stroke, horsehair bur caught my
thigh, trapped my eye, tears, blood, dust
and rust, whiskey cleaned out jimson weed
high, stoned scar right where she left it, pretty jewel,
occult of the pitchfork tines,

I...


Copyright 2008 Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist



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