Sweet girl I have loved you
for so long now
you are in my blood.
My comfort, my sanity,
my red-haired vixen;
I love the scent of you,
the taste of you-
bitter and smoky sweet.
In the darkness
I open myself to you,
roll you in my
eager fingers,
swallow you down,
there is never enough.
Those withered men
who call us names
and scorn our love,
will pass from this time,
taking their chains
and blindness in tow.
On that green day
Those of us who have always
been true and faithful
we who have cradled you
through the nightfall
shared you in secret
and called you sister-lover,
will set you aflame,
burning, burning, burning!
-- Caroll Houser