I've exhausted
My body,
Instrument of seduction
Recycled disappointments
Rewarded in fleeting
Engagements
Exchanges
My body recites
Tantalizing literature
Verbal topography
In between breaths
The silence,
The omission of words
That consents to everything.
And the firm hand
That administers
Love and discipline,
Sustenance and restraint
In an exhale.
-mmd 2020
Photographs by R Yokomoto in Nevada, 2016