the machinists

the machinists

the touch at first is tentative
then curious, as flesh meets flesh
and all coherency is aborted
the tumble of babbling
springs forth into the clamy, damp air

hands find purchase in warm skin
the heartbeats like the wings of a hummingbird
trapped in a cage of bone and sinew

scars are sealed with swipes of a tongue
swollen from suckling

two puzzle pieces slam together
and pull apart violently in effort
to become one

no words are needed in this heat
flesh on flesh
skin on skin
will sufice

and all that is found wanting
is sated

sticky, curled around each other
they who have found themselves as one,
sleep

for they believe in a
deux ex-machina

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Stunning, as always. No criticism here.



The day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by the loveliness of its sunshine and the balminess of the air. I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein