Extracts

I was crying
In your mouth
And you were silent
Cause all the words had gone
And the sky was so pale
And the water so green
Like your fearful eyes
When your fingers slithered under my skirt
Under the rain
That fell so softly
And made us both sodden

Hand in hand
Running
Across an open square
And you slashed my stockings
So you could feel – me - something
Again

Concealed in darkness
I leaned against the wall
And you on your knees
Trying to forget why we were there

In front of you, on the floor – I lie pulverized and soiled
Cigarette smoke from your half-open mouth obscuring the ambiguous
Veiling my vigilance
Licking life into my living demise



Your words still echoing 
Leaving imprints
Like tattoos
Little scars inside my open heart



Needle in my arm
In my thighs
Syringe in my vein
Wired up
And you
You’re my limbs
My mouth
My manipulator



Recomposed at the nerve centre
Eyes no longer open 
So I won’t get stuck
In this interminable barrenness
Where you no longer remember who I am



Your lips were sore
Breathing incomprehensive prose
Vowing amorphous lies and miracles



He knows I’m waiting
Continuously distracted by abstinence
Slippery now
And I shall lie
And never again be afraid
For I’m made to belong
To no one

©Hubris Publications 2006