Southern Flavored

Southern Flavored

Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...

Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in the trees,
unmentionables that peek from dancing lines ...

Love cannot be contained, like Southern nights:
the constellations’ dying mysteries,
the fireflies that hum to light, each tree’s
resplendent autumn cape, a genteel sight ...

Love also is as wild, as sprawling-sweet,
as decadent as the wet leaves at our feet.

Originally published by The Lyric

Keywords/Tags: South, Southern, Love, Romance, Sultry, Dixie, Dixieland, Unmentionables, Lingerie, Underwear, Undies, Slips, Bras, Panties, Boxers, Clothes, Clothesline, Clotheslines, Fireflies, Cantaloupe, Honeysuckle, Nights, Languid