He knew of her yen when he married her,
nurtured it through the struggling years and then
let it loose, much to her surprise that he’d
spied on her all those years ago on her knees
behind the school, worshipping what she loved,
getting what she desired and now
getting it again with his loving help, though
he had to stop accompanying her to church because
as she knelt to accept the host
all he could see was the
hosts of men who had dyed those
pale pink lips with their
opalescent white.
Host

There was something about visiting the stables in summer that overcame Claudette’s otherwise prim and appropriate upbringing.
A delightful image in so many ways;)
Formal
A formal garden, bleak, with
coyly nude statues and
naked urns beneath a
sealed-in sky, your
off-white dress skittering between
bare but budding trees as I
pursued you across
frost-crickled grass and
caught you, pinned you against a
plinth which swayed and
grated worryingly like my
skull against my spine as your
hot mouth clamped mine with a
kiss like the
ghost of sunshine.




