hear

ella's words are crisp
ecstasy
everlasting

equisite oral baby steps
closing artificial boundaries
between us

each vowel...
each verb...

a magnificent
daring of fantasy
and faith.

mn

3

winterfemme

She turns over
a felled tree

she may
submit
or
sink

into the deep snow
of this

breathless
moist
glowing past
the other snowflakes

her need to be used
highlights winter's
need to use

mn

III

*
this cycle of hate
suffering is not a choice
our virtue lessens



nm

entirely

*

my flesh pebbles
your kisses are flames
that erode my thoughts

as i become your clay
folded to bend
flowering your desires

and still my heart feels
safe

her yearning suddenly
done.

mn

whirl

courting patience

no one notices

the vacant house
the wall flower, whispered about by
the pretty willows

tears become bricks of loneliness

the door's still lovely mouth
murmurs: why the fence?

it isn't right

I need another family, so that I may
reclaim my balance

a new family
to be my everything.


mn

whirl

for granted

my tongue intesifies
in daunting what ifs and only you,
as I watch you pale, placid face,
mesmerized as your fastidious
lips render me helpless.


mn

3

unexpected reconcilation

on the edge of light
drunkard thunders through the world
born to beg and mend


mn

whirl