Baby face
Oh how the lines have travelled
from dimple to crease
to split that peach
from the stone
Not unlike the cold
Hard, plastic bodies
of a childhood expectation
I grew to know
and never know
or the catcalls
Unsought, unspent
When breasts no bigger
than chicken eggs
there came a passage
A vision of red
to deliver the sinning
and leave only regret.
An empty bottle of wine
you wave the cigarette smoke and say
“You really need to get over it.”
It burns deep; rises quickly
to my throat, crammed
with desperate protest
It shouted its intention
to hurt, to wound
to get one up
Wouldn’t dare show it then
but the blood soaked
out on my wedding dress
and I’m offended
of your suggestion
to forgive and forget
Easy to stand tall
when the hurt is on
somebody else
But I know comfort
in backlash
patient, patiently
On your Day
I’ll bleed you out
for the memory –
Imagine me, tangerine
The Minx unleashed!
like a fist in the face.