[Image Credit: Athena Papadopoulos, “Lounge Lovers at Lupercalia, (Forever’s Going to Start at Night),” 2015]
A dizzy of gnats.
A stun of hot dusk skies.
An impale of glances.
A race of breaths.
An impatience of steps.
An endlessness of streets.
A fumble of keys.
A clatter of stairs.
A press of bodies.
A feed of kisses.
A tread of sheets.
A violence of voices.
A burst of father, uncles, brothers.
Red.
Blue.
Red.
Blue.
Red.
Blue.
Beat swords into
the eye of the beholder
A nurse’s as good as a wink to a blinded horse.
A stitch in eye saves eye.
All good things come to he who waits.
All good things must come to an end.
Sending.
Waiting.
Sending.
Sending.
Sending.
Nick Black’s writing has been published in literary magazines including (b)OINKzine, Entropy, Jellyfish Review, the Lonely Crowd, Train Lit Mag and Funhouse.
