The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar

Author:Amal El-Mohtar [El-Mohtar, Amal]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: fantasy
Publisher: Cheeky Frawg
Published: 2011-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

She drinks the light like lemonade,

sips it bit by liquid bit,

until the day falls dark and soft

licked slow-as-honey clean.

Her throat is wide as an open door

inviting, honest, full of song,

and the light, it wants it, tumbles in

like a girl after a rabbit.

She swallows every now and then

licks her lips, parts them for more.

Every now and then, she sleeps.

While she does, the Moonish man

builds his nets, chases his dog.

She would take him by the hand

look into his eyes, and say,

love, you should know better now.

The world is not for catching, love

not for having, not for keeping.

The world is all for sipping, love

so tilt back your head and drink.

But he will never hear her, so

preoccupied with precious plans.

He has no willing ear to lend,

while he mutters on and on.

She wakes to quiet loneliness,

dresses, walks to her windowsill,

and sip by sip, lick by lick,

draws night back home again.

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