spider plants (parttwo)

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they came back to her place after beers shots and dinner  Coffee

she asked if hed like to come back to her place for a drink

the spider plants roused when they entered

their spiderettes quivered

they quivered again when she left the room and he went to open the livingroom window overlooking the sideyard

he missed their motions
                    though they waited for him to turn his back

he also missed that they quivered against the soft cool breeze entering the window slipping down off the western hills
gently parting her dainty curtains  gently slipped aside  gently undulating on its breath

she returned to the livingroom wearing a black and rust caftan African print

beyond him seeing the window opened she said You couldnt resist  could you

---   I have no willpower to resist

Im hopin its catchin  communicable          Contagious
    

---   But then Id be the only one infected

---   Yes  Only you
 

Exertin my dominion

Dominion  she said as she went to a small almost unseen dry bar nearly cloaked in sheaths of green tendrils

Not domination  I recall

---   You were listenin

---   I was 
Bourbon

---   Please  Neat

---   The only way to take this bourbon

---   Im passin a test arent I

---   All afternoon evening long

he heard the bottle gurgle high in its throat as she poured the spirit into two glasses
a handsome cutglass decanter obscured by plants

he didnt see that they drew back as she reached for the glasses and decanter

she turned back towards him and watched him as he walked across the long livingroom sidestepping her eclectic furnishings over to the overstuffed sofa   and sit

and sit erect  athletic   leaning slightly forward 
a big cat in a tree under which its prey walked cautiously  or demurely   nosing the air unalarmed  his scent running downwind high over its head in the moist green air

she crossed the room to him holding the glasses before her

he could smell their liquor 
the vapors emanating chased by the heat in her hands at the glass
immediately an oak nose  a slight caramel note   then an earthy leather crush

she handed him his bourbon

sat beside him

sideslipped nearer him to his warm  Better

she held her glass up  offering it to be clinked by his

he anticipated that 
---   To dominion

---   And to its various domains

toasted  he said Yer gettin better by the moment girl
Repartee with a rapier
  

---   And youre language remains  mired  in double entendre

---   Yes  Up to its hips in muck

---   Muck

---   Id love to
Thought youd never come around to it

she laughed

her mouth wide open

her hand  uneager  to stifle it

he set his glass down on the sidetable among the jungle 
took hers and placed it beside his
and as her laugh simmered to a soft mewing he put his arm around her his hand to the back of her neck took her mouth under his their tongues twined  intoxicated serpents

kissing deeply he took his hand from her neck and clutched her breast  it free under the caftan
 

her breast firmed her breath caught her nipple responded ardently

somehow  unbroken from the others clutch  they made the bedroom
it was warmed and fluttering by buttermilk candlelight

                                                 he stepped back into the livingroom naked
copped their glasses of bourbon and returned to her 
they played more an some more  they turned their glasses before the tall flickering flame enjoyed the restless reliefs
and striations playing mutely on their bodies 
he took her with his mouth
she hadnt liked it before 
he made her take him in her mouth
she hadnt liked it before

then exhausted
 

slightly drunk

he smiled at her down into her face an swept teardrops from her eyes with his thumbs                                                                               

and when they wouldnt cease he kissed and perfectly licked them from her crushed eyelids
babying her with hushed there there there an sshh sshh  quiet sweet girl

unable to salve her tears he laid back on the bed pulled her gently to him  and held her

simply   held her
             

without understanding without judgment

until sleep took them

he didnt wake when her glass fell onto the bed  pushed by an clumsy immature spiderette

she woke  caught her breath  her tears welled in her eyes again

she deftly escaped the bed without waking him

he was so beautiful in the blue moonlight

hed cracked the blinds so they were striped in cast bars  like Twenties erotica  their eyes  the windows to their souls  secreted  hidden from the other  made foreign  and foreign queerly unknown  unknown to themselves or each other  then strangers  and then strangers fucking strangely  uninhibited  their bodies dispensed  light and darker pieces morsels  skewered into smaller  delectable  portions to eat
delicious
  

relished

he stirred almost not at all  so very lightly  when he was stung

she expected that of him
 

he had beautiful scars  she traced them with her fingertips making him explain minutely how they happened  if they hurt badly

No he said  he said he was comfortable maybe too comfortable with pain
It keeps you in the moment in the here and now                                                                                          

the plants crowded descended upon him

on his unconscious  beautiful  body

they fed 
where her mouth had kissed him and teased
where she playfully bit him extracting comical ouches and in return he pinched her  grabbed handful of her ass and thighs her breasts sucked on her skin bruising her he promised  where no one would see

she whispered No one ever looks at me

Everyone looks at you  so Im being very deliberate  so no one will know I ate you

her tears

plants silently padded in from the outside rooms  helping themselves

they left heavier  engorged   soft thuds    scratchier slides

then he wasnt there

only the dominion he talked of

0154,  Twosday,  1  3. 16
 1444,  Day-between-Two-Ts,  2  3. 16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqM3v62IW0w