15 July 2010 | Vol. 10, No. 2
One More
Touch me
querida,
Inanna;
I swear,
this time—
we'll explode
like a super
nova—
like the last
passenger car
in the train
that scree
ches off
the tracks
in flames—
like the hunks
of melted
flesh blast
ing out
its wind
ows—
like putty,
like fireworks,
like potassium.
Like beige
lava or
split bone—
like
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Jesse Damiani at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 10, No. 2, where "One More" ran on July 15, 2010. List other work with these same labels: poetry.