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puddle to worm

Jana Svoboda

temptress i don't mean to be--
i just happened to find
myself here, in your sticky
path. cool, yes, and wet;
spreading out before you--
my edges slide you in,
a drunken greeting,
just like the easiest
way home. and then you
overstay your welcome:
becoming besotted,
larger than life. you won't
leave me now. the margins
between us become thinner
and thinner, until they blur
and disappear.

Jana Svoboda has published 2 more terrible poems since joining on 30/11/99. Read more of Jana's terrible poetry at the anthology. Here are three of Jana's latest works:

sound poem psalm 243

Submitted Jan 6th 2011, 11:16

puddle to worm

Submitted Jan 6th 2011, 11:13

Beat Poem Fragment 411

Submitted Jan 6th 2011, 11:10