Handsome Devil

By Dee Allen

Love Is In The Air by Ksenia Svincova https://www.deviantart.com/irenhorrors/art/Love-is-in-the-Air-1307702017

She hadn't met a man

Who could easily

Lift her off her feet,

Make her float in mid-air

Above the trees,

Facing the moon,

Reach the clouds of dusk,

Give reciprocal passion

Scorching like summer wildfires

To California redwoods,

Deliver a soulful kiss

Until she ran into

This new one.

And what a handsome devil he is.

That is, if she can get past his

Grey shaggy bod,

Jutting horns,

Eyes that mesmerise

In a red lantern glow,

Outstretched leathery wings,

Cloven hooves,

Curling long tail caressing hem of dress, smooth legs—

Together they rise in love, in flight with curious bats—

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Dee Allen is an African - Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on creative writing & Spoken Word since the early 1990s. Author of 10 books--Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black, Elohi Unitsi, Rusty Gallows: Passages Against Hate, Plans, Crimson Stain, Discovery and The Mansion--and 83 anthology appearances under his figurative belt so far.