Judi Benson
Love Note
Days and nights too
I’ve burned holes in paper
writing to you. Stabbed through,
sharp point of the poison pen.
I’ve run away with the ink
tearing my heart out for you,
set fire to the bed of sleepless
candlewax for you, you bastard,
my love, the only one
to conjure such responses -
running away from home
fantasies, dusting off the suitcase.
But no one else makes my heart skip
quite a beat, even when my hands
are a strangle of mixed intentions.
Both sides of the coin
we flip for each other.
Judi Benson is currently editing and producing a series of Broadsheets and Poem Cards selected from a variety of poets, under the Foolscap imprint. Her latest collection of poems, Call it Blue, was published by Rockingham Press last year.
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