Alarm

"Something smolders beneath the chit-chat"

Coffee and cigarettessociable vicesI don’t smoke, alasbut you look so gracious sitting at my tablethat I can’t not inhale  your secondary smokeand something else besides(pheromonal or otherwise primal)or maybe it’s just the gray glitterof something ashen silveryet quietly smoldering(too faint...

To Whom It May Concern

"Tacked to the cyber-refrigerator door"

This is just to say, dear,I’ve been searching up some porn!The day is drawn up grey and dimAnd I’ve been at it since the morn.Lord, the smutty images:The mind, it quite unhingesAnd that naughty monster Cupid’sLeft me feeling rather stupid...

Hot Tamale

"If food be the food of love, love on"

My fantastic ideal would beTo be your Mexican housepoetess:Aztec princess, ceremonial heart-swiper,Gymnastically bilingual just as I am bisexual,A hot tamale in bedazzled headgear, pink plumage,Bronzed arms stained with the sex juice of my victims: see them laidOut upon the stairway to my...

Ariel X

"The enchantment of life under the sea"

(a companion-piece to "Ice Elation"; dedicated to sprite, who knows the life of the nymphs and other princesses, and has been owed an ode)* * * * * * * * These be nymphs I see. What sly wizardry,To rapture...