Insatiable Appetite To Please
by
Maureen Albano

1000 pounds of Salt
50 gallons of Red Vine
1 Bathtub
1 Salt Lick Wall
5 heads of Bronze Garlic
1 Bronze Chalice

. . . as she enters the privacy of a salt white room, the anticipating scent of wine makes her skin shiver. Carefully, she steps into the lush burgundy bath and feels the liquid slowly and deeply penetrate her pores. She soaks, lingering and longing, until her body absorbs the intoxicating liquid and then rises to escape to the bed of salt. Staggering through the dream, she stumbles onto the salt that bites and stings at her enraptured pores. To purge and absolve, she consumes her bed, relieving and releasing the fermented soul.

"the soul licks at its own wounds to derive sustenance therefrom"
-James Hitbnan

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