after Langston Kerman
& she forgave his tongue against the pixie’s cashmere neck
& told him she was a silver throated siren
& stopped bringing the closemouthed blade in the bathtub
& thought about how the flickering girl drags from her Marlboro
& never dumped the chalk dust bullets in her saltwater mouth
& finally spoke of the questioning
& tongue kissed her at the crowded bus stop
& forgot the silent barreled hand gun in the basement
but she still drinks poison
from fanged men at the bar, and keeps
a dismembered glass
bottle in the nightstand,
just in case.
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Alex Wise is a twenty-something landscape photographer from Melbourne, Australia. He took this photo of a friend on a busy Melbourne street before a dinner date. To see more of his work, visit him at alexwisephotography.net.