hard to hide the muscles
in summer, the short feminine
shorts revealing ripples of strength.
but the evening light collides
with lust, and johns
patrol, their rusty
Edsels spit smoke,
and their drivers leer.
police flesh seems good when
motel’s neon beckons,
and fifty bucks is little
to pay for muscular thighs,
moist lips, a quickening heartbeat
until the surprise back-up arrives.
handcuffs have other uses,
but tonight the lock-up is
sincere, and bright teeth
reveal the joke.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
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Imagery is great!!
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