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Poetry & Art of the Intelligently Erotic
Issue 3.0
| Lee Sharp - Ravished |
I wore ill-fitted suits
rigid down each vertebrae,
dressed for you
because you liked men
less cavalier,
more self-involved.
you pinned me
to your apartment floor
with patient fingers
and a nimble tongue
that whispered
fuck me
no
fuck was such a
pretty word
you wanted to be
ravished:
torn skin from bone.
I dressed you in
the loveliest spines;
you tore buttons
from my collar
breathily
with teeth.
the world caught fire
and your hips
broke under
my pressure.
embers were the
freckle on your thigh,
stoked.
I slid myself into you
with rigidity
taking your
pain for granted
to ease my lack
thereof
I can still feel
red skin
touching mine
in the ice-fire
of our crossed forms.
rigid down each vertebrae,
dressed for you
because you liked men
less cavalier,
more self-involved.
you pinned me
to your apartment floor
with patient fingers
and a nimble tongue
that whispered
fuck me
no
fuck was such a
pretty word
you wanted to be
ravished:
torn skin from bone.
I dressed you in
the loveliest spines;
you tore buttons
from my collar
breathily
with teeth.
the world caught fire
and your hips
broke under
my pressure.
embers were the
freckle on your thigh,
stoked.
I slid myself into you
with rigidity
taking your
pain for granted
to ease my lack
thereof
I can still feel
red skin
touching mine
in the ice-fire
of our crossed forms.
| Photo by Jessica Anne Gleason |
Table of Contents
Poems
Steph A. Bills - Kid Like Envy,
Sex Crazed, Spring Flowers,
An Ostentatious Eve
Kim Townsel - Prey, Outside
Christopher Kenneth Hanson -
Our Latest Madam, Neon
Lips and Static Grease, Blood
Orange Heart
Larry Blazek - Lady of
Twilight/Birds of a Feather
Howard Good - A Small Fault
Emily Burns - Yearning, Now
We Walk, The Care and
Tending of Fire
Jess Scott - The One About
the Shoes, Three Haiku
Richard Lighthouse - Shards of
Silence, Holding Air
Lyla Dabbe - Voyeur, One
Night, The Exhibitionist
Michael Estabrook - Like
Icarus
Abha Iyengar - Three Poems
Lakesha Davis - Hard Flower
Michele Mitchell - Songs of
Solomon, Switch
Stacy Mar - Breathe You
Tanya Martinez - Skin Deep,
Inside
Eric Hamilton - Bathroom
Floor Confessions
Lee Sharp - Ravished, Night
Sky as a Woman's Heels,
Isabella
G.A. Buchholz - Silence
Ascending
Art
D.C. Lynn - The Kiss, In the
Heat of the Night, Suzanne,
Blue
K.R. Copeland & Jeff Crouch -
Vinyl, Shakeout
Abha Iyengar - Still Life
Additional Photography
provided by Tanya Martinez
and Jessica Anne Gleason
Poems
Steph A. Bills - Kid Like Envy,
Sex Crazed, Spring Flowers,
An Ostentatious Eve
Kim Townsel - Prey, Outside
Christopher Kenneth Hanson -
Our Latest Madam, Neon
Lips and Static Grease, Blood
Orange Heart
Larry Blazek - Lady of
Twilight/Birds of a Feather
Howard Good - A Small Fault
Emily Burns - Yearning, Now
We Walk, The Care and
Tending of Fire
Jess Scott - The One About
the Shoes, Three Haiku
Richard Lighthouse - Shards of
Silence, Holding Air
Lyla Dabbe - Voyeur, One
Night, The Exhibitionist
Michael Estabrook - Like
Icarus
Abha Iyengar - Three Poems
Lakesha Davis - Hard Flower
Michele Mitchell - Songs of
Solomon, Switch
Stacy Mar - Breathe You
Tanya Martinez - Skin Deep,
Inside
Eric Hamilton - Bathroom
Floor Confessions
Lee Sharp - Ravished, Night
Sky as a Woman's Heels,
Isabella
G.A. Buchholz - Silence
Ascending
Art
D.C. Lynn - The Kiss, In the
Heat of the Night, Suzanne,
Blue
K.R. Copeland & Jeff Crouch -
Vinyl, Shakeout
Abha Iyengar - Still Life
Additional Photography
provided by Tanya Martinez
and Jessica Anne Gleason