Long Fishnets Poems

Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch

Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlights seeking contact in the distance . . .

Quiescent unions...

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Taped to the door’s plexiglass pane, a portrait
Of a Savior with ardent heart burning
Sunlight invades with the turning of hinges
Untethering the hospitality of Tony, the lone waiter
His Brazilian arms are swinging doors, open to embrace
He...

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The streets are shadowy and solemn,
shook only by the drunken alley cries
of men in dance and celebration
of a Saturday night spent well
at Madame’s.

I sink into the fire escape,
as I always do after dinner
to gaze at...

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I sang the words of

Joni
Mitchell

and pretended to own barstools as my sweaters lost color, I scribbled words on napkins and
slid drinks underneath them, I pretended to be...

him.


“Buy me something, something I can wear around my...

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Is it truth, is it fruit, unspoiled?
           Filtered news under play kitchen hard boil?

           Unproofed,...

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"Dragonfly Teases"
 

 
He sweetens 
his days
and nights
Poe like
holding fishnets
clicks bait
and sweats
absent 
casting 
mystery 
reels 
he spins 
on the 
mouse wheel 
eternal 
harsh
addiction
he’s hooked
on numbers
in the trapping
is trapped
in the books
he is cooking

Some kind 
of...

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Freedom of speech will soon be DEAD
I don't own a bullet-proof vest
But who needs one
when they're aiming heads
instead of arms or better still legs
These people are humanity' DREGS.
Their “ TERROR LAWS ”
are like  FISHNETS...

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Head to toe seduction is bliss 
Her bed to show her suction is missed 
Lips red perky and plump 
Her hips twerky her stance is slumpt 
Big ass with bigger tits 
This girl is known...

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Possessed by animalistic lust
In a realm of fantasies
Sexualized beauties hands creep across their lover's skull
Every breath stolen from seductive rose lips
Bowing down in devotion, engaging in cunnilingus
Enticing demoness stripping from their panties and stockings
Released from...

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Love hearts and scabby knees.
Dead flies and stinging bees.
Dirty nails and sweaty lips.
Fishnets with ragged slips.
Eyeholes in a hessian sack.
Pimples on a tattooed back.
Toys that she just can’t unpack.
Helen. 
Secret Helen.

Lies from a mother’s heart.
Secrets...

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light dripped
from the street lamp
like fluorescent dreams a-mist
fog wafting in wavy, buttery shards
her own private stage
lithe, leggy form and perky curves
fuchsia Claiborne mini-dress and black fishnets
one spaghetti strap dangling coyly
as if begging for a tug
one...

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Your eyes spring forth flowers from my soul.
You come to me in dreams,
And as the jogger on the street.
You haunt me as the moon haunts the night sky.
You are the ghostly promise of pure love.

A...

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Love,

Love is more than just the ordinary
extraordinary, doesn't hold it's clue
I want to pierce your skin, 
lay claim to my love, 
wrap my mouth upon your nipples 
as I unravel the fishnets on your legs,...

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Swaying, caressing sihouettes,
In the rose evenings,

Meditating, lighting candles,
As you sweetly gaze,

Swaying, liberating hems,
Like salsa dreams,

Your essence is exotic, stunning as rain,
Upon a flowers dazed petals,

Honey of mists,
Golden leaves,
in autumnal symphonies,

The green dresses,
Have turned a golden...

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Standing defiant, her feet are apart, 
Black fishnets from her thighs to the ground,
I’m mesmerized by this woman standing so proud, 
She leaves me completely spellbound,

With black boots on a heel, short skirt and a...

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Intricately fragile, embracing her curves, 
She silently breathes in this womb,
This womb where she is a prey to its wants, 
Its black silken webbing costume,

That clenches her neck, runs down her back, 
Is tattooed the...

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I decided to take the high road...let nature have a say
I’ll let my hair go natural...I will embrace the grey

So I stripped the color...saw it wash right down the drain
Studied myself in the mirror...luckily, I...

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Both legs wore suspenders with fishnets in black, 
Both legs where covered in love,
While her left leg wore a gartering tough, 
Belt made of chrome hearts and studs,

With no dimples, no pits, no elastic stretch...

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Touched by madness, I go dancing
Through mental mind fields,
Down valleys of time.
Finding neither rhyme or reason
I season my dinner
With copious tears.

The girls, all naked,
Whirl like spinning toys
Through smoke and noise,
Just out of reach.
Unimpressed
I drum my...

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"The Sea Inside Me"

The sea inside me, 
hides a Kraken 
in its depths, 
The Fathomless
lives there beside it,
some strange god
feeding on my 
minnow soul

I am one of many
in its overflowing baskets
manna held in fishnets
where butter...

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