Orgasm

She closes her eyes

and imagines fireflies dancing in a sea of mist

enveloped over water-clogged paddy fields.

The splendor of the sight,

the soundlessness, and the vividness,

weigh upon her senses

and render her breathless.

She erupts and elevates

to a world beyond the clouds.

Time stops.

She finds herself again

in the slow descent.

Diabolique

It’s an unusually dark night.

The shadows

seep into the warmth of the earth.

The beetles

plunge deeper into the rotting flesh.

The beasts tremble in their dens. 

The air is as still as rock

waiting in anticipation.

The waves and the waters are frozen.  

 

The moon howls.

Millions of bats drop to the ground,

into an ocean of muted crickets.

The eyes are blinded

and the skin sputters at the first touch of evil.

The frost

takes over.