her studied image
studies me,
implacable
exquisite
inscrutable
(a
strangely fixed vibrance
collapsed into one dimension
of five)
i become lost
(agonizing unknowing anticipation)
in reverie
how to see the tempting timbre of her voice?
to somehow glance and trail
fingers tenderly thrilled through her tresses
and in staring so touch her lips most gently with my own?
how can i peruse
the scent of her
and lay warm in her embrace
with only my eyes?
extraordinary anguish!
such edifice as this to arouse my passion
and
naught to fulfill it