Painting by Jose Basso
Monthly Archives: February 2022
Evil education
Hide around corners.
Peek between fingers
at things of perverse horror.
The fascination of fear
grows roots in safe shoes.
Then, the corners are dared.
The fingers become open palms.
The face flushes in the full carnal view.
In broad day, fixations amble,
cloaked as casual wear.
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Art: La pétrification de la papesse, by Victor Brauner
Goodnight
Mister whiskers, curled up in dream. You, in the faded recliner, the motors of your snore like a cheetah’s purr. The TV on mute in blue aquarium light. Outside the window, a borealis of feathering snow. And I, in a sated sigh, put my feet up too. We go gently into that goodnight.
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