35 Shots, and A Few Words of Loving Memory

[Will Gentieu]

                    

 

Almost missed it,

that tiny Coptic cross

tattoo... just above *my little nene*

from the lush back page of the daily dread,

fresh bird pepper and a fat worm,

all casually wrapped up

in old newsprint;

 

 

But—caught it,

even as the bridesmaid caught the flowers

through a plastic, deceitful betrayal

of teeth... as the grinning groom

stood there, bony, chagrined

his one pearly bullet

already wasted;

 

             

Lost—in slippery sputum,

with the ivory tusk that broke at dawn

into soft, pink caverns... ancient hieroglyph

of wavy, obsequious, intoxicating—aroma of hair

that dark honey scratched from the hive

with a fingernail, pounding

a febrile septum.

 

 

                                                         

35 Shots, and A Few Words of Loving Memory©2011 by W. Gentieu

note* video: dance scene from movie "35 shots of rum" by Claire Denis.

[Will Gentieu]

..............Claire Denis............... what more?