Intimate Fear

anticipation burns holes, cigarette butt pennies, edge-flared with embers alight and undying; and the juice underlying the peptic wrack belly wells up and explodes, almost dismembers. the touch, when it comes, spider legged brushing, black widow trail of promise again; an emotion insane gibbers wild in the castle, jumps mad as a hatter shoots right off the scale. in some skewed reaction, recoiled in a spasm, ejected, thrown clear, nerves bare and bleeding; the penance of needing, frustration of wanting, despatched in an instant of intimate fear...