I sleep in my pearls
only.
Admiring their creamy roundness
Circling my neck
Binding my
collarbones
Loving their white glow
against my coffee with cream
skin.
Sometimes,
with wine
or very hot music
We dance
my pearls and I
as i stroke their perfect circumference
each delicate orb
With a sensitive finger,
stroke,stroke
or i
Slip them from their golden clasp
put them in my mouth
watching in the mirror
waiting, tasting
for the human pearl
nestled deep in a craggy shell
To be opened
to me.
Poem © 2002 Lisa Fox, all rights reserved
appears here by permission