porcelain

alabaster loveliness,

a negative of all the

lonliness within

a single skin,

a positive by

definition,

giving new meaning

to what desire

can produce within

a human mind.

as if in the stark

contrast contained

in imaginative

productions,

she is Lot's wife,

unable to give up

on pleasurable things,

wanting more of

those secret contents

that make her

smile and bring her

a satisfaction that

the pious could

never know,

turned to salt,

to porcelain,

to snow,

yet smiling,

all the while knowing

the price she has paid

was worth it long before

the check

came due...