Dreamscape

Sweat beads along the curve of dark velvet spine

Unyilelding metal curls at wrist and ankle

A singular muscle quivers along the long sleek line of leg

Fractured images of flesh and leather, stone and fur

Fear breathes to life deep within the naked coil of heat that slinks from nerve to nerve

Logic drowns in a pool of raw biting need

Somewhere a whip cracks the air, splitting the fear and desire into twin demons that wrap close between flesh and air

Pulse thick at the back of throat, a frantic stacatto within a cage of shattered glass

Broken lens of realism bleeding into submission without benefit of breath to gasp

Somewhere between what was and what willl be shrieks what is

Heat radiates from depths not yet disturbed

The serpent wakes

Black scales ascend within

Scent over sight, instinct over instruction

Hunger permeates every pore

::staring at the page, realizing her hand is shaking, a slow deep exhale brushes over rence::

No. I did not sleep in peace.