Tender Passion by Talantbek Chekirov
Stretching to meet
him in
blueshale shadows
black lines
chalky edges
~dimension
dalliances
as I swallow
the pale
parading
as Fauvist ovum
in Paul Klee-eyes
~he whispers
in melted syllable
as my mouth
fragments like
bullets
of butterflies
only to regroup
in disjointed
doveflock
to stab
to gel
like shards
of shale
chalky blue:
I breathe crooked
on Cubist cue.
Author’s Bio:
Originally from a small town in woodsy West Virginia, Gloria Wimberley now lives in South Florida where the eyeshine of gators, and plumbago are plentiful. Her work has appeared in Literary Mama, The Northern Virginia Review, Clockwise Cat, Tapestry, and elsewhere. A poem also appeared in Mothering Magazine, under the pseudonym Mirandah Thorn.