Syclla

By Amy Spaughton

Remember and beware,

Come between my legs and you may be crushed.

I know you,

I know the dance,

You may know the world,

Or think you do,

But I do not care to know it,

Those rules do not apply here,

I know only the mechanisms of myself.

Eat me as you ate him,

Put caution tape around my neck and call it a school tie,

Hang me with pastel tones,

Reach me, reach me, I dare you.

Between my toes,

It is my world alone,

With my rules,

My dictatorship.

Between my ankles,

You look up solely at me,

At a hand on my knee,

At my eye on you.

Between my calves,

You may steer the ship,

But I am the whole damn ocean,

Swim at your peril,

And remember,

And beware.