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.
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).