& she forgave his tongue against the pixie’s cashmere neck

& told him she was a silver throated siren

& stopped bringing the closemouthed blade in the bathtub

& thought about how the flickering girl drags from her Marlboro

& never dumped the chalk dust bullets in her saltwater mouth

& finally spoke of the questioning

& tongue kissed her at the crowded bus stop

& forgot the silent barreled hand gun in the basement

 

but she still drinks poison

from fanged men at the bar, and keeps

a dismembered glass

bottle in the nightstand,

just in case.

Alex Wise is a twenty-something landscape photographer from Melbourne, Australia. He took this photo of a friend on a busy Melbourne street before a dinner date. To see more of his work, visit him at alexwisephotography.net.