Puffs by Constance Stadler

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.


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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).