Cistern

Cut glass distorts your eyes and my seeing. We continue on, as if the cistern hadn't been rotated and filled with ice. We practiced — okay and fine; two amateur ping pong players in a polite warmup.

B.F.M.

Not Me

Who’d a thought

a broken down mule

would find a home

in tender arms?

B.F.M.

Affair

Work and distractions are your true loves.

I'm the mistress, the aquarium kept Gila Monster
proving your fondness for all things....
reptilian.

B.F.M.