Poetry
Drinking Her Essence FABRICE B. POUSSIN
Tasting the droplet on the tip of her tongue like so many times before the summer popsicle, she smiles, her body invaded by a shivering glee. Surrounded by an ocean of grassy meadows a vision comes alive within the gentlest soul fabrication of ancient memories from a childhood passed. Craning her neck, she arches her back to the azure seeking more of the freshness upon her skin she wishes she could simply dissolve into warm space. A soft diamond holding unknown treasures slowly slips tickling her insides as her body cools to a blue marble round as the statue of a goddess on Olympus. An ocean grows far below filling her with perfection sparkling on the surface of the soft wavelets below new skies unknown of the living above. Her hands glide upon this uncommon universe holding tight to every fiber of her breast she trembles certain that she has swallowed the essence of her self.
Fabrice Poussin teaches French and English at Shorter University. Author of novels and poetry, his work has appeared in Kestrel, Symposium, The Chimes, and many other magazines. His photography has been published in The Front Porch Review, the San Pedro River Review as well as other publications.
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