sipping
Earl Grey
through the
Flora Danica porcelain
she
tastes traces
of his mouth
singing
echos of Nirvana
at speed
she
plays a fingerprinted disc
again
walking
loose-linked hands
cutting steps
in the sand
she
closes her eyes
kissing
like a ravenous hyena
or a sucker fish
she
runs her tongue
around her lips
licking for flashback
laughing
too loud
loving too high
alive> < evil a
beach-bleached
white paradise
she
tugs a necklace memento
the cowrie shell grins
hanging solo
sleeping
sugar-spooned
calm breath
arm-wrapping
dream-napper
she
stays awake
sinking
through pot-holes
shark shoals
foiled
wrapped and crushed
weeping scars
bleeding
raw words
hushed
she
could not save him
