10-01-2013, 09:23 AM
Hi Todd. Liked very much, though I might be reading it incorrectly. If there are racial overtones (which I take as hinted at via the first and last line) it would be good to expand on them even more than you've hinted, precisely because they are difficult to talk about. Though I might have read things wrong, and it's a fiery love note/homage (full of archaic forests and fecund but treacherous love stones) to someone who often blushes. Anyway, very well done to my ear.