FLASHBACK: Orchis Feasting

Skin perfumed 
with moss and orchids,
drifting close, naked.

 Her fecund body
attracts like a wasp
to an orchid’s lip.

Moonlight dancing
on bare skin,
entrancing.

Taste of
her pollen,
that glorious queen.

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Weslyn Newburn’s work has appeared in the Eyrie, The Blue Hour, and Along the Forgotten Coast: Selected Poems from Big Bend Poets. She likes photographing and macerating roadkill to create spooky stuff.