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Liminal Love

Ralph Monday

You are beautiful, a song, a poem, the
Dawn of beginning.
Do you ever hunger for me like I hunger
For you? I don’t mean just sexual hunger
But an existential longing like the liminal
Space between two seasons.
Attraction like ancient Greek and Roman
Ghosts in the underworld who have almost
Been forgotten. The type of love where
Fingers tap on stone, leave whorls as body
Messages for others to read.

The penumbra is our position or the violet
Hour when the western sky blooms.
Liminaire lovers we speak in shadow tongues,
Amputated cadences, dripped moments like
Tongues tingled by the call of hawks in
Tight gyres, flown so high that the layers
Between air dissolve.

We exist in that space, exhalations, vapors,
Tumbled round by the cry of the cave, animal
Paintings on rock left as offerings for the totem’s
Return.

Another space is also ours, in the beginning time
When animal people were symbiotic, fur, teeth,
Claw, fang, the same as a woman combing out
Her long hair.

We do not engage in idolatry nor false ardor.
The piety expressed is that of one who sees
Shadow without sight, that unsalted land where
Allegiance marries betrayal, the space between
Gravity’s tides and the handfast winding round
The pole in May.

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