Salome, Salome

from Choral Soliloquies (I) by Stephen Mead

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Salome's love for John the Baptist not as vengeance but as a form of obsessive madness

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Salome, Salome

Veils, the silky, the arduous
Ardor of these scents, such scarves
Of perfume, my legs being pistils,
& from within, about, comes
This blossoming moon flower.

It has taken me years, memory
Being curtains, the windows I waited in,
Nylon shifts sweeping ‘round, a slow
Waltz with the motes & I
Sheeted, a cocoon to myself, in transparent
Husks, as ghost, as statue, wanting all recall
Of who sculpted…

Innocence was imprisoning business
But I learned with my fingers, fingers, the touch
Listening, braille as Geiger counter shaping words
Of worlds for the unspooling, the rewinding & I,
Ariadne, keeping a single thread for each vision
To lead me further, lower, deeper, high…

Whispers, omniscience, finally the heard &
The watched became clear abundance,
With my power, sensitivity, a mask
Dance-shed sensuous & passion a psychic
Who knew what you were…

Vigil struck so quickly, John, & hunger,
An owl’s talons. My eyes were the breadth
Of their feathers shadows turning radiance
Into angels x rays-----

Bring that head closer, your halo like a platter
& a cross with four points, your face, your gaze,
The ears, the chin…..
Tenderness has ended in no vengeance, my skin
Itself, the absolute shroud cradling you dear.

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from Choral Soliloquies (I), released May 20, 2017
from FreeSound.org, contributors I.D. from site

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Stephen Mead Albany, New York

A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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