A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

by turns

When your eyes flashed smoke
And your teeth sparked fire
And your velvet voice turned
like a lathe shaping words
into sugar-spun poison
in lances and hooks,
gently administering
acid burns,

I knew
all the worst
of your moods and looks.
And I set myself firm
for all I knew

I might earn.


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