Bed of Roses Sonnet Contest

"Igneous Love"
by Kim Holland


Bedrock of fire, once a red-black molten desire
You were my igneous love. We were volcanic, new—
born, ignoring obstacles blocking our way, two
merging as one incandescent orange light. Then gyre

of steam and swirling sea, our shallow tidal slips
harbored new life and we discovered a finer soil.
Small imprints scored sandstone flesh with color
as we pressed together our metamorphic lips.

Shale hearts beneath glacial breasts wonder, how do
eons sketch so completely and so soon?
Rivers purge our depths, the firmament hollows.
Canyons glazed in vermilion shadows and moon—

light etch compositions, whisper secrets on our shores,
as we echo this and more. We were this and so much more.




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