Today's poem is by Peter Kline
Minotaur
You wound a ball of twine around my eyes
then pinned the end between my fingers.You gowned me in white tissue
like a hothouse nectarine.The furtive door at last unbarred, I was
amazed at the garden's suggestionthroating from vining flower-walls
in breaths that quickened with mine.How long I lingered beneath
sun awnings and a stone-and-mortar sky,only you know. For when I found the throneroom
festooned with pelvis bones,the twin-fingered god on whose nether lip I hung
a kiss, a crape-gartered barb,was you-you the pursued, yours
the bull's head draped with fragrant lash-black hair.
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from Deviants
Stephen F. Austin State University Press
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