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Shawn Aveningo, Lytton Bell, and Cynthia Linville (also known as "Poetica Erotica") explore lust, love, and longing with irreverence, and at times humor, but always with unbridled sensuality in this collection of erotic poetry. Excerpts: All it took was the minute your tongue introduced himself to my mouth flicking like the seconds ticking on an Olympic stopwatch, awaiting a chance to take the baton crossing our pillow top finish line together (Aveningo "All It Took") lick suck nibble flicker over tremble flutter quiver a clear slippery thread stretched between your mouth and mine (Bell, "Juicy Poem") I would die for this saxophone singing through the wrong side of the fence, bending just so practically sitting on my lap. Bitter-tongued kiss smudged eyes smeared lipstick - already too hot to even look at. (Linville, "How to Seduce Me")