Friday, August 1, 2014

Dreamtime Sensuality; An Anthology by David Russell



Excerpt

She handed him a volume of the collected poems of John Donne. “Now, I think you know which one I want you to read me. Hmm…while we’ve been working together, I bet you’ve had some reveries of me undressing, you undressing me.”


“I have to admit that is so and I know which poem you mean, it’s Elegy Nineteen—To His Mistress Going to Bed.


“We really are on the same wavelength darling. I had learned of that poem as a young girl, with a desperate desire one day to enact it. Every word of it struck home as I disrobed alone, for years I yearned for that lovely partner to give me those instructions live.”


Ferdinand beamed, then quoted from near the end of the poem referring to the poet’s nakedness at the beginning of the action. Then he proceeded to read, with his lovely, hypnotic voice. 


He really made Hecate’s girdle feel like Saturn’s rings As she undid her sash and cast it down, she felt her abdomen was bathed in heavenly light, visible only to spiritual eyes.


The request to remove her ‘breastplate’ gave her an etheric shudder. Taking off the brooch at the top of her dress felt like casting away a shield, affirming that strife and combat had been replaced by love. 

In response to the exhortation to unlace, she felt deliciously nervous as her fingers twitched on her zips and buttons.


As the gown went off following the next command, Hecate felt she had emerged from a perennial cocoon, that she was the sun liberated from the constricting veils of night.


As for a ‘coronet’, Hecate was only wearing a slide, but removing it certainly helped her locks flow freely. 

 It was great to feel liberated from footwear; earlier on her high heels had felt so sexy. But now her stockinged feet tingled with electric desire. 


With her underwear, admittedly she found nylon, calico and silk sexier than linen, but the word, so sensually uttered, really relevant. 


The full-frontal revelation was more meaningful as neither of them was naturists, so they were shielded against any anticlimax.


“Hello, Aphrodite,” said Ferdinand


“Hello, Adonis,” she replied. 


Their love was so sweet, so strong, yet so tender, it almost felt as if their gender boundaries were melting with their climax, which occurred three times.


(from story No 2, The Heroine and the Author) 



Bio


b. 1940. 


Resident in the UK. 


Writer of poetry, literary criticism, speculative fiction and romance. 


Main poetry collection Prickling Counterpoints (1998); 


poems published in online International Times. Main speculative works High Wired On (2002); Rock Bottom (2005). 


Translation of Spanish epic La Araucana, Amazon 2013. Romances: Self’s Blossom; Explorations; Further Explorations; Therapy Rapture; Darlene, An Ecstatic Rendezvous (all pub Extasy (Devine Destinies). 


Singer-songwriter/guitarist. Main CD albums Bacteria Shrapnel and Kaleidoscope Concentrate. Many tracks on You Tube, under ‘Dave Russell’ 




Link


Dreamtime Sensuality Antho - Devine Destinies

www.devinedestinies.com/Dreamtime-Sensuality-Antho/

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