She sucks
a long drag
of coiled gray
into her hollow cheeks,
flares passion at the tip,
so that it slithers
up the pristine shaft toward her lips.
She pouts to stain the pinch of insulation
a china red,
takes prisoners down her throat in billowing gushes,
holds them–locked–in the dormant smile of her pause,
Pauses,
and blows them–lusciously–out into the air,
slides them down her tongue
as it warps like a canoe and lingers
just past the teeth,
waving goodbye to men’s attentions
and the straggled wisps of swallowed fire.
Bucky Rea is founder of Invisible Lines, a troupe of poets who perform other peoples’ poetry on stage. He graduated from the University of St. Thomas and has worked as an educator, market research manager, and radio host. Ironically, he’s never submitted poetry for publication before.
