Who's First?


The altar of our bodies' union
lay bare but for its snowy cloth
gathering dust
from beams of sunlight, heaven sent.

Predator and prey, we circled its perimeter,
neither daring to leave the other's gaze
or be the first
to lay down upon the altar
sacrifice righteousness and power
to the imagination of lover's play.


Web Design by Douglas Elves. Water reflection photograph by Linda Jennings.
Geraldine Matus
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Geraldine writes to save her sanity and sense of humour, and loves the joy of words being born through the imagination's eye.


POEMS
At The Altar Of Our Bodies Union
Reminders of Our Wedding Feast
Psalm 793
Love Bites & Lover's Gift
Last Supper for a Breast
Resolution Of Opposites?
Wordless at 1441
Whom Do You Tell?
To Be Small Once Again
Vessels . . . all of this they contain
Against The Miller’s Stone
She Will Have Faith In The World’s Renewal
She Never Blessed My Palate
"Passionate Nightingale And Beloved Rose"
O Mistress With The Strength Of Lions
Passion Of Nut And Geb
I Have Been In A Poem All Day
In The Darkness Behind My Eyes
I Awoke To The Sound Of Honeybees Swarming
Dark Red Fuck of India
Grief Come
Chamber Pots & Flight?
Who's First?
Cedar Cathedral
Being Known In The Mother's Eyes