Chloë Meakin
dharma
January from
December, dressed only in sweetheart pink.
Karma beads and a smile, and a little smile. Smitten.
A touch of purple evening sky
is all it takes to turn
my thoughts from flint to cotton.
Ultraviolet to a lady’s lavender, dharma. Crush.
Boom.
I make
your heart
serious. Today your pink lips purse to blow delightful air,
my skin buds and bunches at its ripple. Willow. How.
Lying down on you is like lying with my face against the stereo. I vibrate.
Veda flavour,
your Sanskrit skin, we begin. This evening in.
Warm gold oceans of a blue you. Gulch.
Bam.
Sandonamea
chandea, your body overwhelming,
arching whalebone.
There are veins in your forehead, in your neck, there are veins
all over your body.
Dharma. So much bass, your walls vibrate.
There’s ice in there, in your ribs
and chest,
there’s a little scream of a mother’s song somewhere in there,
some mother’s scream. You don’t mind that you are childless,
you are hardly a girl.
Since
we broke
apart from our lives and fostered
our own splinter group,
I swap. Teem. Vaunt.
Maybe.
A slippery
food.
Drones ... statics, electricity, frizziness, magnetic tapes and wires.
A mobile phone. Everything I say
only with wet lips.
In the receiver. Dharma.
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- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The