Enjambment

"It's time to choose..."

Your kind of love snaps The back like Whiplash claiming All of my attentions but Returns none with A quickness that is Slow in purpose and Easily teases with its torments repeatedly Placed on random parts of My skin already...

Beware, Beware, the Lover’s Snare

"Sonnet #7: In alternating pentameter and tetrameter, and Spencerian rhyme"

Drenched in desire, lovely the hours Flit away, exquisitely sped. An umbral, knightly presence looms – towers Like memory, over the bed. Emblazoned with eros, swallowing dread, Warm hands scurry beneath a skirt. Words of lust bloom brightly as they...

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...