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By Aspen Marie Published 7 months ago • 1 min read
Photo: mine

In love, I trace

Invisible seams

Tongue mapping

Ley lines

Drawn by

My mouth

Some kind of

Cartographer

Laying claim to

Beloved territory

Properly worshipped

Respected

Desire still lives

In spite of

Pervading horrors

Making love

When time allows

Reading erotica

Alien men with

Tails and horns

More believable than

200,000 men

Watching

Drugging, raping

Our sensuality, a

Defiant spirit

Pulled back

Drawn within

Given over to

Fictional creatures

Because the

Real monsters

Already walk

Among us

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In love with life and all of its foibles.

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    Written by Aspen Marie