love buzz at season's market

cats- quiet as thieves- paw pale through the moonlight
trees bark lingers with dewy pine smells. ..
ethereal. mind sending shockwaves of reverie in goose bumps down a reluctant spine arched and
swelling
with the pain of inaction and captivity.
mind grows ivy bars of resignation and recollection
reveries
little moments of you and me and the ill-planned domesticity
of two lovers lingering
in long sweats, pearled and beaded,
cascading ribbons down thighs spread wide
lightning crashing in side
and i die
i die
to be resurrected
here in a pale north carolina moonlight.

jodi scofield