if I had to cut your love in half
i’d give it away to the
mystery in a trench coat
embers around the pole
her skin like fire
I am scandalized
and intrigued.
yours a lace corset, mine a cardigan
what a shame I am
dressed the wrong way
for my husband’s bedside
his skin fickle
as a chandelier
tell me your secret—
what makes your poison?
how, in the seedy remnants
of a long-forgotten cabaret
did you steal his heart?