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Fetish
Or The Birth of Leather
The tanner reverently lifts the hide
dyed the colour
of bluemidnight
His congregation bows their heads
He bends the leather
They weave andsway
He pushes, rubs. He shines the hide
He threads the needle inandout
in and out and inand out
The ashes from a dying star
streak the leather cloak withlight
The tanner
wraps theleatherround
the naked young
enchantress' skin
she rises, mounts her golden
horse and rides
into the night
Fingers
he frets
the chord
strums
the moaning
hole
his long
slender sound
waves slide
over our bodies
mahogany breeze
travels our skin
we echo
back our
own vibrations
Amanda Earl has had poetry published most recently in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine,
Fall 2004, and her first chapbook, Blood Orange, was published by the University of Ottawa
English Department's Friday Circle in 2003. She is the managing editor of Bywords.ca and the
Bywords Quarterly Journal.
Email: Amanda Earl
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