Siren (June 26, 1981)

The face of a beautiful woman is the voice of death
Death calls us many times
We answer only once
Always we are tempted to respond
Her eyes deep and mysterious with the watery force of Charybdis
In her hair we are entangled as in kelp
Her skin exudes haunting vapors
Her mouth a warm abyss
Sometimes we succumb out of yearning
At times we cannot touch her
In her absence she remains
A permanent shadow beckoning

To hear the author's mp3 reading click here. Accompanying music--"Guitar Canon" by Doug Ordunio