Stef Pixner, “Intimacy”

my love has white arms
and many faces

I deal a tricky pack of hearts
and aces

we smile
and wave
but do not find
us

all our rubies
glitter to blind
us

(submitted by lademarche

Stef Pixner, “The Break Up”

For years

I wore you
like an old slipper

Now my fists
break

on your wooden
face

(submitted by lademarche