Hostage

Image by Tess Kincaid

Hostage


Twists of feminine
spayed from virgin beds

taken as slaves
briny objects

of lust and remembrance
to line window sills

strut garden runways
far from the rhythm

and slosh, the churning
womb of sand, landlocked

as a milk-wagon horse
cold as any stone



Tess Kincaid
June, 2011


Posted over on her site Willow Manor
Listed as #1 over on Magpie Tales 69