The Tower
As she passes, I catch the scent and my entrails coil and knot like a ball of newly born snakes. My sister reeks of her despicable habits. No matter how thoroughly she bathes, I can smell it: the stench of peasant seed. All the baths in Persia, all the perfume in Venice cannot cover the […]
In Memoriam
‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. In Memoriam, Tennyson What matters your inner thigh, petal soft, white as milk now? And your shoulders broad enough to carry the weight of the world? Who remembers your sharp wit, clever serpent’s tongue? Or every small kindness and selfless act, […]
Innocence
If I could brush my lips across your skin anew. Escape the gravity well of all the other skins I have tasted. Unknow the inevitable knowing of what comes next. Erase the salt of sweat, the sensation of a live thing against my mouth. Unburden myself of expectation and the dull surety of history. Discover […]
Fast Forward – 2
(continued from part 1) The old man looks down at the scattered photographs, moving them into some semblance of order. His nails are neat, but his knuckles are thickened by years of injury. “You could have come to me.” She wheezes a laugh. “Turned up on your doorstep? What would you have done then?” “Fucked […]
Fast Forward
“Is this the bed on which I took your heart?” The photograph she holds is old, the colours faded, spotted like the skin on the back of her hand. Then, with surprising dexterity, her ancient fingers flick the photograph across the table like a dealer at a poker table. It slides to a stop just […]
Four Gogyohkas
Damp skin, Creviced and hidden. A flesh maze for my tongue to run. To scent you and know with molecular certainty that you are mine. ‡ I’m possessed of you, like a ghost chained in place, or a farmer burdened of land, there’s no relinquishing the possession. To own is to be owned. ‡ Moments […]
Chemically Sane
The drug smiles for me reptilian and affable it moves I follow The slow blink deciphers not light from dark, motion from static, marks time only out of habit The cool embrace of a limbo where distance is measured in bodily functions and solipsism This is peace: cottonmouthed mute and clamorous silence is my retreat, […]
Truth Settles
Truth settles a bed sheet lightly at first but with creases then smoothed until it covers my face like a polythene bag and suddenly there is no air but truth to burn the lungs to cling and mold closer with each breath, and then affords no more.
#twitterotica Squeal
This was written for Alison Tyler’s “Flash Fuck Me Baby” challenge. 100 words of concupiscence. It was also tweeted live, under the hashtag #flashfuckingcontest 30 mins before it was posted: “I love it when you squeal,” he says. After he’s slid his rigid cock through the slash of my lust, coating himself slippery with my […]
The Almost Woman
here lies the woman you almost had lost hated loved the one you almost threw everything away for who almost drove you off your head the fuck you almost tasted the mouth you almost kissed the nipple you almost sucked the cunt you almost lost yourself in the almost woman.