Three Poems by Jasmine Aequitas

sleep

legs are slick
scissoring
sin and
bedsheet and skin
talon grips
pillow
slips
cotton tethers

the night
is made
for ease

but i fight
like i never
want to see
daybreak.



bottoms up

i fell
clumsily
into love

caught
off guard
all
topsy turvy

in a vertigo
i enjoy
more
than i let on

he laughed
brushed
the dirt
from my scraped
knee

and
casually
remarked

do you
always
defy
gravity?

for the right
moment
the right
mouth

i break
every rule
i was told
i need to
follow

the ground
is where
the foundation
of anything
great
begins.



chasing mania

on nights
like these

i
chainsmoke
drink
write

i dance

trying
to outrun
the voices
the heaviness
the
not-good-enough
not-nearly-enough
of life

of blank faces
empty eyes
cold lips

on nights
like these
my skin
burns
come-hithers
and shivers
coaxing
lioness
from
complacent
housecat

on nights
like these
i channel
the woman
whose hips
speak
with a cheshire grin

whose
spine
curves
like
a question mark
that punctuates
need
as an
answer

whose
mouth
is a weapon
half-cocked
and ready
to be fully
loaded

on nights
like these
i am
pliable promise
breaking

until the cigarettes
are all ash
and the bottle is empty
and the sun
threatens tomorrow

Two Poems by Volodymyr Bilyk

hold your breath for a minute or so

Complacency sets in
Squandering
the savage jaw

"Drive", he said
"Steve Taylor"

"Drive", she said
"Stan Ridgway"

"...A change of speed,
a change of style.
A change of scene..."

you dream of their kiss
Do you think you'd like that?


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Thin White Rope
for the
Thin White Duke

over the
Thin Blue Line
and the
Thin Blue Line
and the
Thin Red Line
and the
Thin Red Line

Man on Wire
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