I lust for you at sunset
Your gold     your shimmer
I crave your wild display
Your crimson     your fuchsia     your peach 

I yearn for you on the mountain
I want what you give to the moon
I want to know you carnally
in every form of the holy 

Elephant-headed Ganesha
wrap your trunk around me
Blue-stained Krishna
meet me where the lotus blooms 

Mantis     Coyote      Raven
show me the tricks of desire
And you, O nameless one,     you fire
that is never consumed 

make me your temple dancer
woo me with sacred wine
I’ll follow you even into the church
of the agonized god     

in hushed light
with guttering candles
at evensong
I’ll pray for you 

O my dusky enchantment
be wilderness for me     be rainforest
be long line of pelicans dipping
wing tips into the surf 

do not abandon me to concrete
to traffic lights
to skies abuzz with planes
where no gold shimmers 

where city lights have bleached out
all your color
and I am lost
to lust and the holy