Saturday, 14 October 2023

Startled from warmth

Startled from warmth

By cold electric paroxysm

Through galvanised experiment limbs

 

The black cough that shakes me empty

With sudden shock

The bitter voltaic thrill

The unexpected frenzy

Of more than comfort

 

I was licking cream from a bowl

That folded along a hinge in the middle

 

Memories of hands warm and unseen

Are alarmed like basking shoals

By hands cool and sharp to the touch

The icy fury of loving

 

A savage passion finger

Along ink and roses

My thighs flat threads

Wrung like damp leaves

While her kiss a tiger’s head

 

I was chased by a spider

Rapid across a chessboard of sheep

Patterned with the detached

Moves of a talented boy

 

We are evening flocks rising above the trees,

Pacing, sniffing animals

On the forest floor

Lost for our night times

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