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

 

 


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