SKYLIGHT SEX

Flora Leask Arizpe


…rain to be sucked from the palm, viscous rain, luxury rain, rain that resounds on the skylight, sly-slinking-grey rain, forming rain, filling in the divots rain, changing the body with each drop of rain, carving from stone rain, turning out the light rain, heading to the pool rain, steam room rain, running around in swimsuits rain, the smelling rain, the dirtying rain, the bringing it floating closer to the surface rain, rain to be written about, the waited for rain, the waiting to abate rain, never coming to an end only ceasing for a moment rain, the mixing rain, mothering rain, the common caring rain, the run for shared shelter rain, the wet leather rain, the kiss it from your glass rim rain, the local rain, the dead tree in the graveyard rain, a single drop on the ink black branch rain, the clear glass marble petal ambulance siren autumn evening pavement eddy tarmac cleansing hair curling rain to be sucked from the palm of the hand of one you love after you run from it with luxurious laughter and after under the open skylight feel the divots of each other’s changed bodies like weathered stone carvings with the lights turned off rain…

Flora Leask Arizpe is a writer based in Scotland. She has had short stories and poems published or forthcoming in several publications such as Gutter, Interpret Magazine, Contralytic Interdisciplinary Philosophy Journal, and Outcrop Poetry.