"Untitled" by Eleanor Leonne Bennett

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A Gift (Two Pictures)

City snow, I said it.
Tiny white beads animate
on the dewed eyelids
of a peculiar woman.
You want her. Badly.
I know the twirling vices
darkly alive,
pleasures of process
& infatuations: mailbox roses,
light massages,
even biblical pillars.
The ego is agenda
disbelieving in altitude.
Show me the art
of your eyes opening muscle.
I receive the gift
aggressively, arms buried
in the abyss. City soil.
Unlock your garden.
You don’t look
like you in the picture,
romancing on a rocky beach.
The lover is a portrait
wearing opulent masks,
taking us briefly to 1991.
Turn off the golden paper light.
For whom are you dying?
The blue window
is not see-through. Stay here
undetected, & don’t sew
discontentment.

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TERRELL JAMAL TERRY’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, West Branch, Washington Square, Columbia Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere.

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ELEANOR LEONNE BENNETT is an internationally award winning photographer and visual artist. She was the CIWEM Young Environmental Photographer of the Year 2013 and has also won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature's Best Photography and The National Trust. Bennett's photography has been published in the Telegraph, The Guardian, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Life Force Magazine, British Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and as the front cover of books and magazines extensively throughout the world. Her art is globally exhibited, having shown in New York, Paris, London, Rome, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Washington, Canada, Spain, Japan and Australia.