By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 16 November 1998

Hard Rain

because I swish bourbon and brood deep
his melody is reduced to utter anxiety
       unnecessary noise

no man has the power to assemble
     this toy angel
no charitable magic
  can annihilate this shadowy abyss

your blessed thrusting, while charismatic,
   is not enough
to light me up
      stoic and self-destructive
             I confront sex
       an indifferent victim

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