Featuring Karina Bush

Pan

You must listen

I catch this male apparition

Nude and healthy and animal-legged

Taunting for the hunting

It is down below I feel you

It is there I hear your song

You are in my sleep

I come for you in the morn

I need you to show me nature

More than just this wooded glen

It is down below I feel you

It is there I hear your song

I’m riddled with this

I’m riddled I can dance

I can be a woman

I can be a little girl

I can be an animal

I can scream louder than you can

I need you Pan

I will lick your hindquarters clean

Take me, I plead

It is down below I feel you

It has been two thousand years

You must listen

Winter will soon thin the wood

And my sleeps will grow deeper

And I will find you

His Beauty

His maleness

Can't breathe in it

It's so much

And it hasn't even broken

I'm only in the tension stage

Of male beauty

Adoring restraint

I know my only weakness

And I need to be there

When his restraint breaks

Breaks all over me

I need to see his insides

He is the most beautiful man

And I can't

IV.

I tried to speak

My mouth filled with love

I spoke flowers

Pouring out of my mouth

He kissed me

So I filled him up with them

They will each fruit over time

He will know my love

And when the final flower fruits

I will flower him again

For eternity I will perpetuate us

And we will perpetuate eternity

Karina is an Irish poet. 'Maiden' is her first published collection.

For more information about Karina Bush’s writing: http://www.karinabush.com/

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