Wednesday, 11 November 2020

sand in the crotch


The sun

rests low and sullen

in the west, the heat of the seat

sticks my towel to my back

I feel the tassels scratching

between my shoulder blades,

travelling home in the car

heat sits on the chest

like a heaving dog

windows down but the wind

causes lips and cheeks to blister

no relief

the sand caught in places not wanted

but being squashed between brothers

hands cannot ease the discomfort

of grains rubbing against skin as if my flesh

was the lamp of a bothered genie.


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