Unicorns and Dark Chocolate: Eros, Aphrodesia and Existence

By Marques Vickers

The poetry of Northern California artist Marques Vickers explores the inspirations behind eros, aphrodesia and existence in his 300+ poem compilation recorded over thirty-five years.

“I spend my life ripping the skin off of words, exploring and hoping...” Succinct expression capsules Northern California artist Marques Vickers’ poetic work “Unicorns and Dark Chocolate”

Vickers sheds the mythological orientations behind his own formation into a cohesive exploration of inspiration and eroticism. As he the painter must lift his brush to express visually, he the poet must elevate language beyond the evident and obvious.

By examining his own-mirrored reflections, Vickers navigates an elemental path amidst the chaos of existence. He attempts to pierce through our subconscious surface to reveal the wellspring behind our thoughts and actions.

Art is romance, romance is art. His transparency of thought becomes his instrument for transfiguration. His language remains as concise and distinct as his tinted palette.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marques Vickers
• Release date: Jul 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311862631

Marques Vickers

Visual Artist, Writer and Photographer Marques Vickers is a California native presently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, Washington regions.He was born in 1957 and raised in Vallejo, California. He is a 1979 Business Administration graduate from Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. Following graduation, he became the Public Relations and ultimately Executive Director of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84. He subsequently became the Vice President of Sales for AsTRA Tours and Travel in Westwood between 1984-86.Following a one-year residence in Dijon, France where he studied at the University of Bourgogne, he began Marquis Enterprises in 1987. His company operations have included sports apparel exporting, travel and tour operations, wine brokering, publishing, rare book and collectibles reselling. He has established numerous e-commerce, barter exchange and art websites including MarquesV.com, ArtsInAmerica.com, InsiderSeriesBooks.com, DiscountVintages.com and WineScalper.com.Between 2005-2009, he relocated to the Languedoc region of southern France. He concentrated on his painting and sculptural work while restoring two 19th century stone village residences. His figurative painting, photography and sculptural works have been sold and exhibited internationally since 1986. He re-established his Pacific Coast residence in 2009 and has focused his creative productivity on writing and photography.His published works span a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, California wines, architecture, history, Southern France, Pacific Coast attractions, fiction, auctions, fine art marketing, poetry, fiction and photojournalism.He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who presently reside in Europe.

Book preview

Unicorns and Dark Chocolate

Eros, Aphrodesia and Existence

Published by Marques Vickers at Smashwords

Copyright 2020 Marques Vickers

MARQUIS PUBLISHING

HERRON ISLAND, WASHINGTON

TABLE OF CONTENTS

UNICORNS

INSPIRATION

FORMATION

LIFE AND MUSING

DARK CHOCOLATE

i do not love singularly

the act of love is duality

multiplicity

the soul too vast a continent

to encase the heart

i am fidel to love

fidel to its twain and twinned

###

i must gently reject this tie

that binds

imprisoning band

soldered by good intention

i must refuse

your strangulation

much as you may wish well

my demise

i can offer language

a peppery tongue oriented to season

your blandness of existence

but never the prospect

of accepting

a candied coated prison

as its price tag

###

A day, year before my death

the distance closes

one hand traces a circle

the fragile sphere of feeling

the lightened breath of love

heightened desire

floating like a cloud

amidst stilled fountains flow

profound crystalline waters

as the world i entered

outside your window

your opened tunnel

was my heart so hard

so clear

as the forged diamond

you viewed

###

deep in the heart

of longings far removed

one discovers galaxies

fragments of what once

illuminated

and when my eyes are shut

i witness the light in your own

traveling on an adjacent highway

amidst the darkness

###

i raise your flower to my lips

petals spread, moist, red

lost, disoriented, drowning

existing in scent

existing but you

a flowers fragrance

flawed in perfection

###

why speak of love

when but distance

when only time

bridges a chasm by circumstance

a gulf which time adheres

which time ignores

why speak of love

when sorrow knocks

to the response of circumstance

why speak of love

when it devours all

###

one does not question the sea

or why an imprint

remains imbedded

in memory

one does not question love

or its hallucination

if only a glimpse

one lives

awaiting its return

###

woman divorcee abandoned

to the artlessly changed

rules of lovemaking

bound and captive

into decades of matrimony

she emerges free

ill-prepared for the evolving etiquette

of pursuit

the empty ardor

of distracted suitors

###

night passes to daylight

darkness lifts

the veil of disclosure

mi corazón

my heart lingers

over the solitude of goodbyes

without farewell

sacred sensuality

entombed amidst cathedrals

of memory

###

while you slumber

let us speak

on the river of love

which one would surely

drown

without resistance

###

raging bloom

of the dormant flower

draw me into her kissing sips

furnace soul

who may resist

not i

a mere pilgrim

solitary soldier

who guards the flame

of sacred surrender

###

i am near

yet so far

from the laughter

of your distant voice

it speaks

in a language

i have known

all of my life

waiting

for each whisper

to enter my ear

###

forgive my intrusion

into the carefully constructed decorum

of respect and distance

between us

the door was ajar

enabling my entrance

###

lost in thought

a world

where a fleeting memory

becomes flesh

i in you

you in i

locked in a summit

expectation

severed only

by the absence of time

###

like making love

images immortalized

fasten like tentacles

to our remnants

of memory

throughout time

###

oh desired one

in the calm of our shared serene evening

your whispered laughter

washes my soul

as a wave deigned by Allah

i inhale the perfume

of your skin

destined or my nostrils

only in close proximity

solely by you

###

was it so very long ago

a slight brush with your skin

ignited

A detonation of desire

torch passed to memory

fleeting but never far

from the muse

of an average day

are we really so distant

divided

when the aroma of your voice

seasons my dreary diet

of reminiscence

inaccessible longing

###

i know love

as abstraction

long resolved

abandon is youthful indiscretion

mansions of cards

poised to fall

i offer

less

a lower ceiling

torch in a darkened cave

###

did you

feel my touch

such amidst evening's shadow

my legs

wrapped around

like a ribbon to a present

present tense

fever i cannot shake

smiling, inhaling your perfume

restraint not in my vocabulary

distant