So, today— Just as I’m thinking about how We could both use a reminder That good things can happen —The cackling wind Steals my hat from my head,
By Morgana3 years ago in Poets
to the one scraping mold off the AC coils: i see you wearing your toils. i see you when you refuse to get embroiled in the ploys to act disloyal, forgiving my recoiling and looking past my foibles. i see you out there plundering for spoils on a prayer to live like royals, but you just keep getting foiled by all this modern turmoil so, hey
Dear whiskey, I never spoke my vows to you. I never pledged my loyalty to your fraudulent glow of glass jar fireflies, that twinkling trap of revelry,
pleasure playful, passionate permeate, prolong, peak praise, porn, piercings, papercuts puncture, pinch, pummel prickly, pounding
No needs, no nemeses, Neglected norms, numbed novelties Nostalgia’s nectar neutralized Numinosity nullified Necessitating no narratives
Dozen drinks deep, darling descends Disoriented, distraught. Darling, desist! Damnit, defend! Demons do darken drunken dens,
The mirror showed a reflection that wasn’t my own. The other man appeared in the mirror just as he did in the photograph on the back flap of his debut novel's dust jacket—hair mussed, fingers loosely steepled, mouth quirked at one corner. Only his eyes deviated from the photograph's bearing. Round, exposed irises darted to-and-fro, animated and incongruent with the frozen whimsy of the rest of him. The effect was cartoonish.
By Morgana3 years ago in Fiction
Above an ashy airspace, Atmosphere alights. Aviators ascend, apace, Awestruck and agape As Aurora arrives. . Arizonans are astir,
misty, monochromatic mornings, make me malinger my movements mimicking molasses my mouth, metallic malaise… mushrooms. .
Clitoris is a delightfully named nub* Root: kleitoris—“little hill” (like its hood!) But the Greeks loved a good pun And they knew how to have fun
Mons Veneris’ etymon I approve of A pubic part named for the goddess of love: "Aphrodite’s mound" A glorious crown! Then we went and rechristened it “FUPA.”
You call it mucus, discharge, secretion All vague homonyms lacking concretion Vaginas make goo It’s useful goo, too And deserves a word as certain as semen!
