the poetry knook :: the poetry of stephen m. james :: indianapolis, indiana » summer https://www.tpkpoetry.com the poetry of stephen m. james Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:04:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3 Greece: Six months after https://www.tpkpoetry.com/poetry/greece-six-months-after/ https://www.tpkpoetry.com/poetry/greece-six-months-after/#comments Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 A cog in the broadcasting industry;
I was there, and now, there is on my shelf
manufactured like a dollar candle unlit,
next to plush Athena and Phoebos,
books partially read, and 1500 pictures
last summer, good deal, had to grab it:
the candle, five dollars, the gods, five euros.

]]> https://www.tpkpoetry.com/poetry/greece-six-months-after/feed/ 0 Mantis religiosa (only-pricks-of-protein) https://www.tpkpoetry.com/poetry/mantis-religiosa-only-pricks-of-protein/ https://www.tpkpoetry.com/poetry/mantis-religiosa-only-pricks-of-protein/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2004 05:00:00 +0000 Curious, I enter her sight
as the lab coats watch
administrating bright lights and magnifying glasses from above,
ingesting her scent, I approach cautiously,
we pray,
we stare
we flirt,
we dance,
our wings flitter
against the glass ceiling–you stop.
I tackle her into the grassy Green
rolling around abdomens aligned.

I gesture to leave,
but you blink and motion back,
toothed arms rubbing my chest gripping
her-moans–my fantasy,

locked, lips draw blood,
her arms thrash my sternum,
the S-bending of her abdomen revolves,
she blinks again as the
antennae lash out the eyes
and the late summer sky.

Epilogue:
“Placing them in the same jar, the male, in alarm, endeavored to escape. In a few minutes the female succeeded in grasping him. She first bit off his front tarsus, and consumed the tibia and femur. Next she gnawed out his left eye…it seems to be only by accident that a male ever escapes alive from the embraces of his partner”
-Leland Ossian Howard, Science, 1886

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