blue skies poetry

I’m falling in love
with the idea of

adore
the feeling
as words caress
drip and slide
complicate my skin
envelope
in pleasure
my tongue

as it licks ink
on the crust of a blank page

~ Anne Sorbie

Anne Sorbie was born in Paisley, Scotland and she lives and writes in Calgary. Her fiction has appeared in journals such as Geist and Other Voices. Anne’s first novel, Memoir of a Good Death, is forthcoming (September 2010) with Thistledown Press.

Read more of Anne Sorbie’s poetry:
– some quaint perched aerie on the cliffs of time #2

Editor’s note: This poem is one of a series of ten “neruda spell” poems by Anne Sorbie that are being featured on blue skies poetry this week.

Filed under: Anne Sorbie by akublik Date 22 February, 2010