<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=458383" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Little Lion Face</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little lion face<br>I stopped to pick<br>among the mass of thick<br>succulent blooms, the twice</div><div style="margin:10px 0">streaked flanges of your silk<br>sunwheel relaxed in wide<br>dilation, I brought inside,<br>placed in a vase.Milk</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of your shaggy stem<br>sticky on my fingers, and<br>your barbs hooked to my hand,<br>sudden stings from them </div><div style="margin:10px 0">were sweet.Now I'm bold<br>to touch your swollen neck,<br>put careful lips to slick<br>petals, snuff up gold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">pollen in your navel cup.<br>Still fresh before night<br>I leave you, dawn's appetite<br>to renew our glide and suck.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An hour ahead of sun<br>I come to find you.You're<br>twisted shut as a burr,<br>neck drooped unconscious,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">an inert, limp bundle,<br>a furled cocoon, your<br>sun-streaked aureole<br>eclipsed and dun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strange feral flower asleep<br>with flame-ruff wilted,<br>all magic halted,<br>a drink I pour, steep</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the glass for your<br>undulant stem to suck.<br>Oh, lift your young neck,<br>open and expand to your</div><div style="margin:10px 0">lover, hot light.<br>Gold corona, widen to sky.<br>I hold you lion in my eye<br>sunup until night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=May+Swenson">May Swenson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=458383" data-title="Little Lion Face de May Swenson" data-description="Little lion face I stopped to pick among the mass of thick succulent blooms, the twice streaked flanges of your silk sunwheel relaxed in wide dilation, I brought inside, placed in a vase.Milk of your shaggy stem sticky on my fingers, and your ba..."></div> </div> </div>

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