Max-Actually it was a vampire vampyre? Or mini succubus succubussing!?
How's occupy Melbourne doing -risen from the ashes???
P concerned
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 29 November 2011 22:14
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Subject: snap: slap
Slap
Slap! palm of my hand
against my ear
in the midnight dark
with my eyes closed -
merely a marauding
mozzy buzzing near
brought on this
self-inflicted
loud hurtful reflex.
A second before,
I was asleep!
Did I gotcha?
That's not English -
best my midnight
brain can manage.
Can't hear the buzz.
Maybe it got away.
Get back to sleep.
Morning may show
near my ear some
squashed mosquito.
Smear of blood?
not likely, I reckon,
unless another's.
Did it bite my wife
first? smoother skin
more biteable.
She hasn't lashed out.
Her breathing's steady.
Feigning sleep, is she?
Tiny swelling near my ear?
I think not - averted by
my quick slap,
the sting from which
still makes itself felt
near the offended ear
with its post-slap
sensation still.
Can't get back to sleep.
Is that a mozzy buzzing
hovering near her face,
my sleeping wife,
about to settle?
How can I protect her?
Slap? No, just lie low,
feign sleep. I sleep.
Max Richards
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