This publication is dedicated to the celebration of Beauty as She appears in the female form. The celebration appears through poetry and photographs by the author and through other art forms.
This work is based on the book "Woman As Beauty" by Dane Dakota (Westview, 2010). The book is available at amazon.com and on Kindle.
The Snowing Forest
You press your body
against the earth
the same way your skin
leans to your lover’s chest.
You soft-kiss
the stiffened air,
the snow-wrapped trunk.
The forest lies quiet
until a circle of wind spins
an evergreen
fanning flakes
across your raised face.
Even now, in bed,
your eyes reach
beneath earth’s clothes
to check on her
just as a mother rises
in a cold night
to stroke her warmth
against her child’s face.
How the earth must
love your touch.
How I do.
-Dane Dakota