StarCat/CatStar
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home.
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home.
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Two poems<br />
By Lana Bella<br />
CHIASMUS<br />
You no longer feel the urge to<br />
slam the door,<br />
instead,<br />
with a casual flick<br />
of your fingers,<br />
you set them loose,<br />
groaning<br />
toward their final berth.<br />
Things are simple again,<br />
back then you<br />
couldn't have known<br />
betrayal lurks<br />
in the roundness of her curves,<br />
the shame that makes home<br />
when ill breaths<br />
tug at your lungs,<br />
or the chiasmus of triumph<br />
of her exit<br />
with the defeat of yours.<br />
PINK CHAMPAGNE<br />
with one tried breath,<br />
the little red dress slides to the floor,<br />
leaving bare fingers on<br />
skin the color of poached egg,<br />
somewhere near the grooves<br />
of its wordless slither,<br />
the dragon tattoo wraps itself like a boa<br />
around her back,<br />
across the king-sized bed,<br />
breaststrokes of raspy heat turn bubbles<br />
immersed in<br />
pink champagne,
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