Fixation
You were a brooding wind
a gestating storm
a ragged intake of derelict breath
your voracious tongue thrusted blue
and flickered orange, procreating
mayhem on a cellular level
while I restlessly whirled
in surreptitious places,
a pinion gnashing
uncertainty
ripping molecules
rearranging atoms.
we
together
a quantum hurricane thinly veiled.
Force the Deep Breath
The edge of the knife blade hangs
innocently close,
water immerses the blue light
of our human air,
blood is not a question
of power.
Force
the deep breath;
explore the damage,
the treasure,
the myth,
the drowned face.
Sway the ribs of tentative haunts,
the dark streams of
black.
Closed eyes bear the stress
obscurely,
half-wedged/half-destroyed.
Fouled,
we are lost.
Charlotte Hamrick lives in New Orleans where she doesn’t eat gumbo everyday and doesn’t ever say “chère”. Her work has been published in numerous online and print journals, most recently including Blue Fifth Review, Connotation Press, and The Poetry Storehouse. She was a finalist for the 15th Glass Woman Prize and is a Pushcart nominee. Her original writing can be found on her websites, Zouxzoux andNOLAFemmes.
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