The Cleave Poetry Webzine [ISSN: 1758-9223]

The Girdle Sensation by Steve Parker

In submission on January 21, 2009 at 10:15 pm
in that her presence was itself some zonesthesia past mere atmospheric cinch
he breathed tight.
shallow noticeably different yet for a week or more would not look would not feel
the girdle sensation /the swoon
or more hives or hives of her a hive or several of hives
that hemmed
upon him as poetic asphyxia he wanted to smash it the cincture
as poetic asphyxia the drowning the press which in such ways accompanies to perform a delicate an intricate task
the cincture which accompanies the drowning zonesthesia task at the very limit
past mere ability several or more hives that hemmed upon him at the very limit of ability