Higher Still and Higher

   Higher Still and Higher

That lower lip alone could cause us all

To ponder beauty in the abstract — if

The lip were not so lovely to enthrall

Beyond pale intelligence.  A hieroglyph

For everything which symphonies desire,

This fuller plumpness with its carnal swerves

Distracts the chance for meditation.  Fire

And craving focus on its feral curves.

The mouth inside, the face around that flesh

Are like a velvet showcase for a lush

Shape, sovereignty.  It makes our hearts grow fresh

Convictions for divinities of plush.

..That lower lip reminds us of the need

…. For prayers because it makes the conscience bleed.