Wednesday, November 6, 2013

He holds it in front of him like an instrument, a Suzuki, a stringed Stradivarius--15 months after appleton, Feb '98, Geisert Hall


 

Afterwards, our bodies lay across each other like fallen bridges, each of us taking deep breathes, Janus  looking back at me, planting kisses on the side of my neck. Our bodies glazed in each other’s natural dew. Her forehead drips with beads of sweat, reminiscent of the melting of icicles in late March. She turns to me and after a moment of listening to the lull the Oscar De La Hoya computer screen saver emits, after acknowledging the subtle hallway raucous and deciding that she is better off not leaving, after hearing the spring board squeal from the floor directly above our bed, she turns to me, asking me questions, beginning with the words, ‘you know.’

 

            “Do you know I’m in love with you?” She says, more of a statement than a query. I nod, brush my fingers through my hair, look at her poster left over from the campus wide poster dale at the beginning of the semester. Looking at the Gingerbread man, wondering what piece of my body Janus will bite off next if I misbehave.

 

            There is a silence in the manner in which we cuddle.  Sometimes we hoist each other over our bodies like a blanket, tugging at each other’s limbs as if fingering for the helm of a flannel comforter. The lull the computer screen emits is pleasant and almost soothing. Her whole mattress smells like an orchard, her body scoping it’s limbs even further around my waist, reeling me in closer.

 

 

 

                                                                        **

 

 

“David, report to Janus for a kiss.”

 

 

                                                                        ***

 

When I come I normally have to be reading something.” Janus says, almost a laugh.

 

            She pulls back the orchard emanating comforter that drips into the top of the floor. Stacked like graduation tassel donning hats are stripped books of erotica she has retrieved from the dumpster. She holds them up, sets me on a convenient chair that Corey Ruben showed her what to do and the read out loud. I try to accost her and hold the book.

 

            “No,” She says. “You watch.”

 

            The shirt of mine she is wearing is unbuckled and open. Her bra, silk, purchased from the Victoria Secret gift certificate she got for Christmas. She continues to read, a passage I have long since forgotten admiring the subtle volition of her hand, pinching at the top of her jeans like a spider, slowly unbuckling the brassy orb. I begin to sprout as I hear her volitional hand pull south on her zipper, s if she is creating two succinct tracks of individual railroads to traverse.

 

            I move closer. She swats me back with a look of seriousness pasted into her eyes. I focus my vision of the top of her panties, edging out form where she created the fissure by tugging at the zipper. Her hand encroached the top and slices its way down, into a place I can only imagine is warm.

 

            Janus reads on. She reads. It is a threesome. It is a gang rape. The female hates it so much she is enjoying it. She is demanding that they tie her up. She is demanding that they blindfold her. She is demanding that they split her in half; break her in two, punish her for not having the one item that they posses, the on item she wants ploughed inside of her right now. The stem, the flower, the dew. She wants all of this right now and she wants it in as many crevices as are possible.

 

            Janus reads very sexily. Her fingers continue to massage up and down. Janus is holding something inside of her jeans in place. She is holding something that will fly of if she lets go of it. Her whole body is both bird and cage.

 

            Come here,” She says in one word, the book down on the mattress like a dove that has just been shot.

 

            Come here. David. Come here. Oh, come fucking quick.

 

            She has paralyzed herself and she is holding some sort of button inside her underwear, afraid that if she lets go of it, a current will drown all of the inhabitants. I walk up over to her. With her free hand, the hand that is not in her pants, the hand that was previously holding the wounded dove, with guidance she leads my hand under the silk tent of her panties, to the place that she has been holding.

 

            Her whole body is early spring. Her breath increases. She tells me to press it as hard as I fucking can. She wants me to hold her hand and press her like an elevator button whose door will not close. Press it has hard as I can. She wants the two of us to make her come together.

 

She lets out a sigh afterwards. I get off the bed, careful not to step on her glasses, find her book and place it under the apple-cinnamon scented mattress.

 

            “Next time, “ Janus says, still sputtering out inhalations as if Oxygen was something foreign to her body. “Let me watch you.”

 

 

                                                                        ***

 

A very pretty flower just for you.

 

 

                                                                        ****

 

 

“Well, she’s a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night I’ll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven.”

                                    “Young Goodman Brown”, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

 

 
                                                                                ***
 

 

He holds it in front of him like an instrument, a Suzuki, a stringed Stradivarius. It breathes in life. Hard. She lies in front of him so that he can count the moles on her back, making constellations. He has never held it in front of somehow before who has demanded that he perform this one act. Demanding that she hear him adjusting his fingers, playing  the chords, emanating a sweet ambrosia to go with the chord.

 

She reclines down. From on top of her he can make out vertical slash where her bra was previously fastened. His body his raising his hand, hard, erect, it looks like it is groping out to meet someone.

 

            Without consulting the time signature he begins. With slow and solid tugs he  shifts chords on his own body. Slow at first. It is almost as if his entire body is a high dive and part of him must fall down, on top of her.

 

Her back is a rye desert, spotted with several craters disguised as moles. She is waiting for him to arrive. Waiting for the jam he is to produce. Waiting for the nectar to be deposited in tiny splotches at first, as he continues to give his recital above, tugging at him earnestly. A slight treacle of sweat plops off of his brow, landing on her back, near the mole constellation he has mentally monikered Ursula minor.

 

In one standing he has become concert master of his instrument. He hits the high note. He plays in perfect tune and all the while his audience is below him waiting patiently, patiently, waiting for him to finish the piece, waiting for him to douse them with his concoction, waiting for sprinkle his seeds over them and begin life anew. 

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