Tendrils extend
out to shoulders and knees
You can't remove it
~ ~ ~
He is, at heart, romantic
When he was wringing out the rag
he uses to clean the windows
he thought of you
and your arms
left and right
shoulders to fingertips
not a Chinese burn
but a deep, more graunchy
twist
Perhaps a little imaginative
~ ~ ~
First divorce
and he crumpled like a concertina
with someone else's thumb stuck
on middle C