Your skin glows like a green mussel shell in the Negev desert in winter, blossoms white as the Burberry Mac in the purest rites of spring in Tel Aviv where I got my pen on eBay or Haifa
My yearning parts rise to your flute;s voice and leap like a hot cat at the whisper of your name, Mary
The evening ascends on a great strange blue string like a kite going to heaven all alone
I am calmed by your pink chiffon scarf that I carry into the house and hold next to my sharp knife to kill burglars
I am filled with hope that I may dry your tears of hot water with my hanky from Jenin refugee camp where I spent my spring holiday aiding the children
As my heart attacks failed to kill me it reminded me of those walnuts wasting in my trouser pocket
Don’t worry, they are no trouble to me st all, they are like the marbles we used to play with
In the bush, I listen for the last screams of the cyclamen and the anemone
My heated yarn leaps from my lips like nylon thread off a spool in a thunderstorm
I wait in the mystical moonlight for your secret codes so that we may decode as one, brain to brain
in search of the vulgar and common country of love known to the illiterate and the wilder animals
Do not fear.I am a virgin at heart and I will not touch you unless you desire my love to be shown that way and I respect your virtue otherwise I’d not bother writing all this stuff so poetic and newly revisee
We can go to the chip shop and then listen to THE FUTURE sung by the little Jew who wrote the Bible
Then we will cry all night because he seems to be right.
Well ,it was nice while it lasted
Next time we might cross the Jordan and ascend into heaven, God willing.Amen
That is the end of prayers on BBC Religion for Today
