MICHAEL DAVID COFFEY
Modern Nefertiti

In striking elegance
   in brown supine
      surrendering
Lost in the oasis of palms
   fanlike deliverances
      of a greeting
You are there in cotton
      green black lime green
   bikini
Black hair held high
   from the pool
      you emerge
         like a panther

In striking elegance
   in lounging leisure
      bedecked
         in sensual
            awareness
You lounge like a cat
   waiting, watching
      aware
Sexuality evoking
      hungry
   legs languishingly
      given
And eyes dark lie
   sapphire beacons
Evoking

In striking elegance
   in goddess like poise
      bedazzling
The dusky light kissing your
      brown skin
   Caressing your lips
      provoking
Evoking   sexuality
   Aching hunger
And lips moist, dewy
      lingering, beckoning
And shoulders
      surrendering

Modern Nefertiti