She lay affixed, daughter of Gaea personified
radiant visage at arms-length snapping away
Dusk bid good day, to her queenly headdress
Releasing silky waves of her onyx hued mane
delicately onto surrounding earthly bed
From temple atop a svelte mountain
Her constitution’s peak a softly glowing beach
Aphrodite’s treasures marked her birth
30 years to the east and north of
Brows of eyes firm but faint commas resting uninterrupted
A closer look south reveals more lucid than fatigue
This disarming focus under dimming sun
These enamoring dark brown pools sickled by LEDS
illuminating enticing dips into the soul
And what I saw I decreed at my lung’s best
” Bless the sculptor’s, painter’s and farmer’s hands who made your cheeks from the better halves of lush peaches”
Upright curves casting shadows over the base of her delicate jawline
Embracing downward to bare smooth chin
Underneath shy graceful neck
The perfection of her mocha melanin
gradient landscapes of sun kissed caramel complexion
Constellation of cinnamon-sugar grains lightly dust her chest, arms and breast
Come-hithering was indeed the tune of her swell
fascinated I watched the sweet dew collect
Between the curve of her soepel nose
and the peak of her smirken lips
Heaven incarnate!
Until the echo of my words finally reached her
Frantic waves to those sunbathing on remote holidays
Startled grace by the hunter in the enchanting grove
Away she swept into the safe of the ocean’s spray
In this motion she revealed her unyielding strength
Lay not in wonders of her beauty and magestic scale
But in the last impression in memory through the mist
Her pinning doubt by trident in the reef
De Largo Haleine 