Metaphor Stories

I find myself bound to you again. Five-leaved ivy vines circle my wrists and thighs, for I am Persephone in reverse, abdicating the lengthened light while pursuing your longer shadow. "Is this not what you wanted?" Your voice, low and mocking as you lead me to my new abode: a cave, temperate-cool, awash in silence clinging and cruel. Time is suspended in this gloaming. With a turn of your wrist, you channel me through cen...

Dare I unfurl the banner of my desires Across stubble fields and barren moor Or drag it through dew heavy meadows To hide beneath a willow's curtain, weeping? Should I barefoot and pregnant of expectation Induce grass spears to caress my skin Or dip them in the sparkling flow For minnows to feast upon my need? Might I unravel the beeswax square That burnished key reveal Sacred and sanctified with acid tears Yowled in angu...

Her fingers caressing the keys of a piano.   Flash Her fingers raking  over his back.   His lips gracing the rim of his mug.     Flash   His lips kissing the column of her throat.    Her legs slipping into narrow-legged jeans.     Flash   Her legs gripping over the arrow of his hips.    His hands holding the edges of a newspaper.     Flash     His hands tightening over the softness of her thighs.    Her voice a sigh of da...

I tried to tell you how I feel, But the words just didn’t work.How can I express what you mean to me? If I were an artist, I’d paint you,With fine lines and bold color and great movementTo illustrate your physical grandeur. If I were a musician, I’d sing you,With swelling crescendos and intricate chords and complicated harmoniesTo communicate your creative spirit. If I were an athlete, I’d play you,With contracting muscle...

The Angel and St. TheresaThe Angel came,Spear held aloft,Wings unfurled,Fiery in his Splendor,He found her,Soft, Prone, Delicate,Somewhere between dreams,He made no sound,The Spear descended,Flesh Penetrated,Her Body filled,Warmth, Joy, Rapture,Toes curled,Back arched,Mouth flung open,Eyes wrenched closed,The Spectacle ofGod, Lucifer, Paradise, Inferno,Passed before her eyes,A moment only,An instantaneous Eternity,He left...