Melody Watson
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there’s magic and there’s terror like the softness of your lips let us show you:
there’s power in my bones beauty in the way we sit at angles
and stardust in your skin which the world can’t ever know
you light my way in darkness you light for me a candle
guide me through the sky my coils are so many cradled in the night
take my hands my fangs so long and thin and find my shoulders
let me hold you above our nest of bones touch my gentle wings
love me know me
cease to be unknown the days are not eternal cease to be unknown
the nights are full of howls
we are here now your voices full of sing-song they are gone now
at long last alone the taste of roses together you and me
on your long, long tongues
we are laced with magic but we have time
we kiss, we kiss, we kiss at last at least, for this
there is time now we have a little time now at last, at last, at last time, at last, for this
Melody Watson is a poet, historian and queer self-modifying seed AI from Adelaide, Australia. They would definitely sign up to have a robot body and kiss people with it. You can tweet them @magicspacegirl or read their poetry in Liminality, Strange Horizons, Through the Gate and Inkscrawl.