Lynne Burnett
Zoo
They made love sometimes like animals--
mouths open, greedy for the spoils of night,
shamelessly biting into the soft flesh
of needs born suddenly, caught in the brute
grip of an act of God’s, heaven
turned upside down, the milky way
pooling across a dark cave floor.
His kisses came after, musky and quick
like the blood of a fresh kill, only it was
her blood she smelled and her thick tail
twitching but shhh, shhh, he’d kiss her, lip
to swollen lip, hand pressed to a breast,
she to the bed, listening to her heart pace
behind the ribbing of its beautiful zoo.
mouths open, greedy for the spoils of night,
shamelessly biting into the soft flesh
of needs born suddenly, caught in the brute
grip of an act of God’s, heaven
turned upside down, the milky way
pooling across a dark cave floor.
His kisses came after, musky and quick
like the blood of a fresh kill, only it was
her blood she smelled and her thick tail
twitching but shhh, shhh, he’d kiss her, lip
to swollen lip, hand pressed to a breast,
she to the bed, listening to her heart pace
behind the ribbing of its beautiful zoo.
Biography
Lynne Burnett lives in the Pacific Northwest. Recent or forthcoming publications include Arc Poetry, Blue Heron Review, Comstock Review, Crosswinds, Kissing Dynamite, IthacaLit, Malahat Review, Mockingheart Review, New Millennium Writings, Ristau, River Styx, Tamsen, Taos Journal of Poetry & Art, The American Journal of Poetry, Underfoot Poetry, and several anthologies. A Best of the Net nominee, she is the 2016 winner of the Lauren K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, “Irresistible” in March, 2018. She maintains a blog/website at https://lynneburnett.ca/
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