Worm sex
Sipke Shaughnessy
crumble-soil
tugging skin-damp
sends pulse forward.
squelch-soil squeezes,
its passing through
sends passing-through pulse;
bristles dig
damp humus steaming
receptors fire
bristles pause.
identifying–
a fellow soil-pulsing?
crumble-soil nudged
askew.
feeling tip?
receptors fire
writhing fellow
what worm is,
forming now:
writhing-fellow-musk
and receptors-bristles-soil.
release signal: nuzzle your lead-tip
down there.
writhing, entangled,
squeezing
soon lost in us
our wormness
let us
engorge in our half-sex
our reason oozing
between us
let us
before
crumble-soil
Sipke Shaughnessy is an Irish suburban dad living in Kent, England. He has work forthcoming in Southword.