New Partners To Kiss

she doesn’t know I left my urge          up in
the icebox      under the roof     on the floor
of the consulate’s attic           it’s pretended
anymore like a terrifying     war     between 
two bitter friends in love with guns
but not the bullet      this pretense endured
for vanity’s sake
                               home in the hamptons
       a cobweb inflects on a cranny cornered
by our calico kitten                we’re not kids 
anymore with             worthy wars to abhor
clinics to bomb            new partners to kiss
so it’s her and I          so it’s houston I miss

bright bright blasts 
                          bind the cradle blind SIDS
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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