Moist sheets tossed aside
soaked pillows
Side by side single mattress
She was exposed drippings
Dime sack and tree rings brittle snowcats
Green sight meet brown peepers
Plumb late April Boreal Plains humidity
Abittor Unami eau de cologne electricity
Thin plain pink blanket on the window
Air conditioner recirculating
Salmon rays preen her face
Noon spring afternoon
the rain stopped the sun peeked in
Bare cucumber blooms sticky seeds
Hanging over pickled
The lard on her belly
She didn’t bathe
Just left my bleak studio apartment
Erotomania sweat,
Womb vacant,
Minnows swimming
Contraceptive implant
Wedding ring manufacturer.
Damp linens flung aside
sodden cushions
Flank by flank
She was damp
Nickel sack and bark rings
Verdant gaze meet hazel orbs
Ripe late April Northern Flatlands moisture
Slaughterhouse savory mist perfume
Slender dull rose covering on the pane
Cooling unit recirculating
Coral beams groom her visage
Midday vernal noon
the drizzle ceased the light slivered in
Naked gourd blossoms adhesive juice
Lurching brined
The toddler flesh on her abdomen
She didn’t cleanse
Just exited my one-room lodging
Infatuation perspiration,
Empty uterus,
Pixie sperm dribbling,
Contraceptive device
Marriage band fabricator.
Moist sheets tossed aside
soaked pillows
Side by side
She was wet
Dime sack and tree rings
Green sight meet brown peepers
Plumb late April Boreal Plains humidity
Abittor Unami eau de cologne
Thin plain pink blanket on the window
Air conditioner recirculating
Salmon rays preen her face
Noon spring afternoon
the rain stopped the sun peeked in
Bare cucumber blooms sticky seeds
Hanging over pickled
The baby fat on her belly
She didn’t bathe
Just left my studio apartment
Erotomania sweat,
Womb vacant,
Leprechaun semen leaking,
Birth control implant
Wedding ring manufacturer,
Laconic
the soul of the clouds soar
everlasting filled with the dews from the aire
as well as the grounds recirculating, reciprocal
hazing drips drops of moisten first heavens tears
first heavens cries
first heavens drops the tears called rain,
from the first skies white pearl
cotton entangle holding waters
pour, tear drops fall, rain terrain onto the grounds
wetting ponds, lakes, rivers, streams
clouds full of soul waters soar
rain waters fall
1/24/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2024©
There's a stiffness in the wind
swallowed, muffled, antique air
recirculating all to bare
so let us now begin...
There's a storm in summer sun
broken glassed and rumbling still
breaking you against your will
the reckoning's begun...
There's a whisper in the breeze
hollowed, suffered, trembling voice
you have it now, it is your choice
but suddenly you freeze...
There's a shudder in the lake
rippled sadness afterthought
wrapping 'round the stiffened heart
summer chill and absent quake
'till suddenly, you're wide awake...
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