Erotic Poetry
"Stilettos"
an erotic poem by Joshua Gage
She scatters in like autumn,
crimson. Each step is a match
striking the shadows erubescent.
She conjures bolts of lightning
to rotate her stride, tames
scorpions to bear her on their backs.
I swear it takes a week—
the same length of time
God needed to conjugate
a verb from breath—for her
to wind from the door to the stool
where her legs shiver down,
two serpents, thick
with all the promises of apples.
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Originally published January 2011