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Sugared tongues sour
in the typical way.
I put my mouth on yours,
and I think your body reacts
only to things I do poorly.
Is it the effort? or the decade?
I think you must sweeten only
in watching my decay.
I exist
moment by moment.
Where is the you in that?
in the typical way.
I put my mouth on yours,
and I think your body reacts
only to things I do poorly.
Is it the effort? or the decade?
I think you must sweeten only
in watching my decay.
I exist
moment by moment.
Where is the you in that?
“there is something to be said about words that sound. sounding to memories, or fear, or future, or other things. if my words can bring strangeness - oddity - the weird - to life, it is sound.”
tom has self-published three works: writing night book (a poetry anthology), the skeleton girl: a collection (poetry and short stories) and across vast horizons (another poetry anthology). he has various other things strewn about the world, but most of his work can be found at amarthis.com.
Alexis Bates is creative living in Baltimore. You can read her work in Luna Luna Magazine, Five:2:One, Vagabond City Lit, and elsewhere.