Simone Claire Harms

my Wants                          is him some;
Movement a bastard between
the Stroke
or trudge                               of tongue.

question: How here could be as bitter?
A: Old hell less than lazy
(so strokes and trudge                 away)

having
a bitter cup of missing him.             a
cannibal                      ache.             a
shore of      bitten shoulder               wince.

what part of                                  speech?
my frightening wound, i picked a switch
which wets the                           feather.
is it a life?      this moving and looking.

   Then An Old wood pecker on
the side of the     house pecking Stucco.
I take off     our tits       with your teeth.

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SIMONE CLAIRE HARMS is a poet. She lives and writes in the Twin Cities.