KarMel Scholarship 2005

 

“A Photograph Not Taken”

By Anonymous

 

 

Desciption of Submission: “I am neither a photographer nor a painter.  So this painting of my girlfriend is in words. “ - Anoymous

 

 

 

a photograph not taken

because you can’t capture something

so beautiful…

knees at her chest, roped by hands

intertwined

don’t fall (protection, also suggestion)

to legs barely apart

revealing nothing

everything

hair winding down

cold stone

shoulders

hunched

but not afraid…

(she says) fuck me and hold me

somehow

at the same time

and she says neither

but hand grips hand

and i can hold you

and fuck you at the same time

and afterwards lay there

breathless

without words

but finding

some kind of conversation through

bodies touching

your hands on me saying

this is where you’re most secretive

and honest

saying—

love

and my hands on yours saying

how beautiful is

the communication between

skin

breath

lips

saying

i’m not so scared anymore

saying—

love.

 

 

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