Rings Around the Fingers of a Whore.


I don't know what terms to wrap around your pointing
Bony fingers, but your
Rings, so selective, so girlish warm in their opalescent
Canniness are to me so many dinners I do without,
So many drinks I forego; around each orbit of your
Knuckles a girdling set of legs entwine, legs
So human, so frought with plain hair,
So selfishly wrapped around your pointing opalescent fingers
So beautiful in their indifferent languor,
Dim and cool, worn clean
With the care of so much joy
And no salve of love.