Title: Almondine Author: Dryad Rating: PG13, MSR Spoilers: Paganism and Christianity Archive: Yes please.  A note where would be nice. Category: Mulder POV- on Scully Disclaimer: Alas, alack, they are not mine.Yadda, yadda, yadda. Summary: A meditation on love Author's Note: I am not a poet.  ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸, ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸, My love eats brown almonds One by one Slipping past ripe lips Onto a pink tongue Between white teeth As easily as myself During long nights And short days On cool cotton Warm flannel Hot silk skin Like Devi, she is many things incarnate Shakti - universal energy Kali - mother of death, destroyer of worlds Durga - the warrior purging the world of evil Parvati - passion personified Almonds were wedding favors Harbingers of long life of love abundant of joy expressed in medieval days passed My love eats brown almonds And consumes me Regurgitates me whole Like Isis she brings me back to life In Christ Risen she rejoices Eating marchpane of old Simnel cake And marzipan On Easter Sunday My love eats brown almonds And smiles Dryad Copyright ©2001 Dryad