Breathtaking

image borrowed from bing

“Breathtaking”

plush pillow skin,
pale—winter peach
ripe
for drizzling

lash-clap hypnosis

elapsed bedlam hush

injected, hysteria
suspended—air hanged

by reptilian ropes,
paternal,
knotted neck-tie
yokes

doused in heptane resin,
burn-rushing shame

interruption voided,
skin ash
dirt returned


Shawna McAllister

Posted over on her site Rosemary Mint