that dark

Gently turning aside the cotton blanket and flat sheet at once  he exposed her shoulders

and a single breast

her nipple swelled

but she lay there  still    motionless        keeping her eyes shut tight

quiet tension working slight creases on her eyelids      quiverings

tossing light aside  as off a fresh serving of tangerine Jell-O in a cut glass trifle

                                                                                                                                                       emboldened

in his mind he wrestled with what he wanted and what she wanted and what he thought she might want him to do

and what he thought he wanted to do         sparring

deliciously

his hand trembled  the blanket and sheet he held sinuous antennae

she exhaled  turned slightly  elegantly  towards him    shifting her shoulders and legs

then

         he thought what did he care what she thought

he cared

and then  slowly

                    he began to undrape her body   her other breast swollen tense

counted her ribs to the swale of her belly

                                                                   she slipped a bit more  her eyes shut tight  her eyes moving under their lids  not panicked  not comfortable  perhaps seeing herself as he saw her  exposed through his eyes

round hipbones  her cauldron pubis thighs knees shins  she turned towards him slightly more    aw her ankles

she slipped her lower body  her body  onto her hip crossed her knees  her calf foot toes
                                                                                                                                                  her eyes shut tight

he dropped the blanket and sheet to the hardwood floor

he looked   he admired

she exhaled

and his hand  still warm from holding the blanket and sheet  he placed on her upraised hip

his thumb inside her hipbone

she sucked a breath in through her mouth

he ran the fingernails of his other hand on her buttock down to her cleft 

 

clenched it in his hand

she moaned

then releasing her buttock he ran his hand  s l o w l y  to the edge of her waist the flat of her belly to her larger breast and captured her upturned nipple between where his thumb and index finger joined  the rest of his hand enjoying her swell  his fingertips feeling her heart beat

he roughly pushed his hand passed her breast  gentle at her arched sculpted collarbone to her throat

his hand around her throat

                                               her eyes shut tight

holding her so  firming his hold  he leaned over smelled the hair at her temple  kissed the bridge of her nose her eyes

her cheek  then sought her mouth as her head began to move so her mouth could find his

kissing her he felt her hand brush him  then hold him

                                                                                         he shut his eyes tight

to join her in that dark where they saw what their eyes cant see

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0955,  Twosday,  11  8. 15

Eden

A forest fire burned not far away creaming the sky with tart scents and black smoke 

                                                                                         he walked inside to saydragging the sun in behind him Its a withering one hundred-plus degree heat

MyGodShutdadoor 

                    Its hot!  was the broadside he incurred 

Ah

      but she was a child of air-conditioning 

air-conditioning and heat

too warm Air 

too cold Heat 

   when he was a kid he was told to go outside and lie down in the cool grass in the shade of the elms

or throw on a sweater 

                        Ya got enough sense for tha doncha boy

discomfort was dismissed 

as an air-conditioned child she argued Thats what machines are for

machining her comfort

machining her entertainment

a few weeks earlier he read an article on something called Initiative 2045 

                                                                             it was going to fit her to a T

no longer

no more

   creature comforts

sentience served by machines

                                 until the machines became sentient and expunged the Pretenders declared a Eugenics of cool metal and silicon

 

the Earth and Seas will thrive again 

                                       virus and dis-ease eradicated

Welcome meticulous self-replicating hardwired  wetwired Eden

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 0100,  Twosday,  18  8. 15

Bendixed and Back

whew       

             now to recover from vacationing

2223(fortuitous),  Friday,  28  8. 15

pedigrees

kids are cruel

but thats their pedigree

grammar school had yet to curb their tribal tongues

so their hopped up bugeyed antagonism was wont  fresh
                                                                                              without any sense of its death spiral

they pointed their fingers at him and gasped shrill   You piece of crap You slumsoul

Crap?

            he thought they had some growing up to do           

a lesser child  not thickskinned or bullheaded like he  might have been hurt    took offence 

they were intimidating

there were several of them

but he knew the smell of bait and the tact of trolling

 

like a fat old bass or freshwater pike 

                                                        

as Time passed
Wisdom seeped in
 

their end would come when God reached down into the water  snuffed their gills

and lifted them from the cold water shaking their lives from them

                                                                                                          not clumsy fishermen

one among them must have copped slumsoul from an older sibling     or overheard it

creative

hed give them that

but he wouldnt give them the satisfaction they obviously were looking for

maybe  he figured  this was his to teach 
                                                                   an early lesson
 

they werent going to have all the satisfactions they wanted 

                                   

                                                                                                        slumsoul eluded them

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