Jamilah Ali Alexander 

Lunch at the Algonquin
 
Oh, did you call?
Are we meeting Dorothy there,
and the rest of their brat pack, I swear
that would thrill me I'm sure like
temptation to sneak a
quick feel 'neath
the table while ghosts toast
our feat of true love
against odds, in fact the façade
the image derived
in cascade reflection
in antique mirrors,
you look up my dress
while I smile at the guests...
my fantasy
lunch.

 


 

Heels Over Head
(for Kent)
 
tasting
basting love I desire to
sample ample rotisserie
make me an icon and
click me when yearning
and lick me like
cardamom's
tang

 


 

Yearbook Photo of Maryann Measles
(with sincere apologies and condolences to her family)
 
thirteen might have seemed thirty
deemed unworthy of martyrdom
at first glance imagine her poor white ambience
bartering secrets for cigarettes
accusing statutory
baby small town hang-around-the-store
nothing more?
 
thirteen never fourteen
wiped out before adversity had a chance.
they used her used pubescence
parted her half-ripe breasts
in a bloody gang-bang
in scenic Connecticut
 
unabashedly delivered by the
girlfriends of the klavern
clinched her execution
her screams unabated
except underwater
dreams of rescue undelivered
 
wrapped in putrid blankets
chained without remorse
discarded trundled corpse
young girl, eyeliner like grout
blood-smeared lip gloss
maroon, with madmen plummeting
 
she wasn't
such a "good" girl, but still
the woods, the mud, the river, the chains
the sky will testify
and provide ransom
for her soul
while the trees stand silently
abhorring

 


 

Rapture
 
oh my honey of a man
your lips so sweet against the sour
aftertaste of my contention
 
kiss me. Take me to other compartments
in this catacomb of love. Spank me into
succor. Bind me
 
secure me to the raft of your rescue
your arms ransom
for enormous waves of ardor

Make me be good?
Turn my bitter tongue into a
sweet bouquet and take me away

to a virgin environment
without prior convictions
anoint me, brand me, make me
 
yours make you mine and I promise we'll
find rapture through tenacity

 

 

 

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