THE BOARDWALK

Strolling male curiosity

Herded to obsession

By titillating strutting advertisement.

Life learned forgotten

When spying

A wanton womanly form.

Ruddy-faced

Her cowering cool

Seeks refuge

Behind admirable mirrors.

Scandalously

And seductively hidden

Breasts of cinnamon

Reveal our sighs

And conceal her sincerity.

Lithely limbs of mahogany

Stokes and shades our misogamy

Sun drawn lines

Draw our eyes

Toward her forbidden fruit

Our spirited loins

Clamber closer for hint of ecstasy.

Promises to her unborn

Protrude faithfully

When beholding the cleft

Of a jutting chin and sculpture chest.

Her perfumed and petrified flesh

Easily penetrated

By the nodding glance

Of prominent silence and mystery.