Snow Leopard of Nepal by Diane Dehler

Snow Leopard of Nepal

Snow leopard dream

come back to me

into the eye of storm

and out of rain.  Your

diamond brilliance

blinds my eyes, this

body washes away.

Leopard undressed

in between drops.

I am the water that

comes for me.  Pale in

moonlight lost as rain

a blush of petals white

shell the moon.

I am cream ripples

ghostly fur my hair,

silver pale my eyes.

Drop by drop I

become the river.

Our bodies entangled

become an altar.

Shaman albino

sky over moon, a

leopard gives stretch

to the dawn, crouches

silently near tree and

waits for rain to

cease.

I give my breath

and become a lake.

Leopard becomes

a thirst and laps my

soul.  We vanish

into a white river

acacia of dream

Diane Dehler

Hot breath of all desire by Diane Dehler

Hot breath of all desire

Leopard
rises straight high
a spirit wind, winged
beast awakened
instinct.

Poised on a cliff’s
steep jutting edge
with sharp claws
as pink as dawn.

Embodied writing, the
pale of me and your
molten leopard flesh.
Hot breath of all desire
splattered with pattern

Of wild rosettes.
A stealthy approach
sly leopard licks salt
of my flesh, feeding

On my sheer wild
nakedness -- bleeding
creation all over me.
Solitude of a leopard
joins passion.

Diane Dehler

Published in the Munyori Literary Review
http://munyori.org/

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