IV

 

The red lamp-shade glows
a torch underneath your maroon lace negligee

Your naked face neck & breast
matt-blood washed, four-dimensional - stark

like smoke lit up to play your part
Pantomime of intoxication

Penumbra you hex me just with your sight
spells lick my heart & you taint

with warm poison your burning cathartic
beauty, bred in purgatory . . .

My warm loving cadaver
we are one, forever