Arabesques - original poem and video

Arabesques - Sasha Cuha

Arabesques (song for Ophelia)

You are smoke, my love

an arabesque of desire

that floats and waltzes 

through the briar and oak.

I am trapped 

by the way you lie

in that foreign floral halo,

your lips embroider the night

bringing colour to skin

and names to Gods

when they land

(like promises or moths)

on me.

The well of your skull - 

a space between drab and divinity

where serpents lie and twist,

singing secrets to the silent witness

hiding amongst the bones and rain.

She weaves the fishnet of our limbs

and lets us trawl for jewels

across the mouth of our river.

You are smoke my love,

and I am become the ember and trout.

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This poem was written in 2015 as part of the Dirty Thirty poetry month challenge and was published in the same month in the collection of works from the challenge.