Headlands
love’s mouth
stuttering uglily
was desire flying
from satiety,
a slit of light
in extremis.
I was cooking
unhappy couplets.
th skin, th dream, th praxis =
beating thought’s shadows,
then its silences.
Ian A. Bonaparte’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prelude, Vinyl, Pelorus Press and Ameriquests. He is a junior agent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates, a literary agency.
