Each year the SCWC*SD has a writing contest in which all conferees are invited to participate. The rules are simple: Write a piece in any form you wish of no more than 250 words based on the topic announced Friday night. The topic for the 17th annual conference was "Lap". Shubha Venugopal of Bethlehem, PA is one of two writers awarded for outstanding entries.
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To do you, I open my mouth wide. My tongue
To do you now requires no mere glide of tongue inside.
Now, my body, trapped in fluid force, fights
And then, exhausted, to you I crawl.
And when I reach to touch,
There is a jerk . . .a shock . . . and soft turns taut.
Alone I think of you.
Rolls forward, curls, and slides inside.
In scooping fluid it is sinuous—
It slips back, flicks lips,
Swallows, and is satisfied.
To finish endless counts of you.
In liquid circles, round and round,
I stretch and kick and spin.
And why? Why just to say
I completed you.
My fingers dimple skin.
I push on you, you give—
So I believe in you.
Soothed, I pull myself on top.
Cradled by a nest of bones and soft of flesh,
I relax and melt to you.
Engulfed by you, I prepare to sleep. . .
You straighten . . . and you are gone.
| Copyright 2003, Shubha Venugopal. Used with permission. |
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