Ana Elsner

Flirting
                                                                               
    Stony Sweetheart,
                              grazer   on  meadows     of skin,
            WHO   chimed  you        into  Sunday,
      the one  day     when there is      no bloodshed?

Flirtatious Dominatrix,
                                      subject  of our fascination,
                          now unsleeping,
    now raised up
                          from the darkest      soil  of heaven.

        Say you wish   you were a Seraphim, 
        
     but slice    through our sinews
                with the gold tipped    blade of your song,
      
your   deliriously   hypnotic   siren song,
        
              that cripples    our feeble attempts
                       at  gasping      for life.
                                      Sunday.
                        No bloodshed.

And you are     inscrutably     a  wanton Seductress,
               approaching        from far away,
              
yet  never   far  enough  away
          to save us     from       the predictable outcome
              of our   dangerous   contrivances,
                                                        and let us go
                         unclaimed.

Yours  is   immortally   a love  that is,   needs be, 
                all consuming,
                               all exhaustive,
   deliciously  fatal       to our  bereft    state.    

                              Yet all our  new days
                     we will  be,
     we dream                         of your touch,
                                         secretly,
                                 craven.
             All now flirtation.
                                        All.
                                             Now. 

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Ana Elsner is a multilingual poet and author. Her poems 
have appeared in various international literary journals 
and anthologies. Her latest book is the poetry collection 
Ciphers Of Uncommon Origin. A new book, Resurrected 
Omissions, is due out in 2010.