Puffs I. Infidel Cornflower blue .........................knives ..................................incised as pomegranate lips ...................................hissed .................................................Betrayal. … and unavailed of lies … I witnessed I watched ...............as your circumcised heart .........................softly ceased ................................................seizing round a cornflower blue ...............................................meadow trailing petals tracing tendrils ........................in the whispering kiss .of ............my name. II. … says my Solitude ... Silver .......Streams Seamless ........Steam Steeps .........Salt ..............Liquescence .........Blanch ..................Iris .....................Clean. ..................................................(… brown once … yes … The Caring ............Beg ............To Cradle ..................Touch ....................Speak to me ....................Weep with me. .......................................................(I’ve got you, Princess ... Go .....As was my gilded joy .....So is my iridescent sorrow Mine says my solitude ........................Mine. © Constance Stadler Constance Stadler has published over 300 poems and three chapbooks in her ‘first manifestation’ as a poet twenty years ago, and has just released two chaps Tinted Steam (Shadow Archer Press) Sublunary Curse (Erbacce) an eBook, Paper Cuts (Calliope Nerve). A new book Responsorials (with Rich Follett) was released in fall 2009 (Neopoeisis Press).