Friday 20 April 2012

Last Chance, Romance, day 20


Last Chance Romance.
The pasta on the terrace had grown cold,
failing to entice through the open window
where sunshine had become scarce as jewels.
The muffled voice, the film that had detained us
continued painting stories to no one,
while wine took off our Wednesday masks
and your curves led us towards a Tuscan bed,
when sweet irony tripped us over the cat.
He tried to look as if he wasn’t there,
kissing his fur with his meat-eater’s tongue.
We claimed the slippy terracotta’s
serendipity shipwrecked convention
making love urgent, there, before the stair claimed us
each step, up and down, declining to make peace.

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