And So It Is Written

"So I largely write in secret and take a salacious pleasure from sitting in my favourite coffee shop, notebook in hand, writing down words I'd never ever say, about things I'd never do. Everyone just assumes I'm either studying, or planning a shopping list."--Kay Jaybee

an author like kay knows
that the act of love
is a gift divine
a gift from no less than god
that same god
the pious
the scapulared
the ones who finger rosaries
with heavily veined fingers
send their supplications & hearts' desires to

the kays the rebeccas the lexies the elizabeths
do not mess up their fictive characters
in godly fashion they coax
tenderness out of bondage
& homemade whips

they velvet & clover
the breasts of their janes
the schlongs of their johns
the way a song is kissed out
of a legrand-bergman combine

oh, wait till one scribe tells
the pious others of how
she declared openly
one afternoon while
a proselytizer handed
her a pamphlet on salvation
that she had long left
institutional religion

then she shut her eyes briefly
inhaled & told
the god of creation
the way she would address
a friend:
thee i do not mean to spurn
are we still okay?

the answer came in the night
a reassuring dream of
of two pairs of buttocks
their roundness rocking
in the ultimate act of
creation.

--Babeth Lolarga

Source of Jaybee quote: "Kinky books: Erotic fiction is having a steamy renaissance and its hottest authors are women," by David Woolfall, The Independent, March 10, 2012.

Painting of bound woman by Tin Garcia exhibited at Pablo Galleries at Cubao Expo in 2010