Dear All
Comments please
BW
Christine
Why?
Why risk your arm with a greedy lover?
A toad would love you better,
sit grinning by your side,
hear your murmurs to the wind.
Why risk your arm with a greedy lover?
A bear would dance you round
nuzzle your ear, bristle up close,
snuffle the lines in your hand.
Why risk your arm with a greedy lover?
Spiders would spin you a dream,
to hurl you, wild-eyed, into the night,
leave you in silken bonds.
Why risk your arm with a greedy lover?
A snake would swallow its tail,
shed skins to make you shoes,
draw crazed circles in your mind.
No, best give me your arm;
I eat well, don't need
to devour the hands I hold:
we two are of a kind.
chrisbousfield October 2002
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