DANIELLE PAFUNDA









Dear Diarama

 

In the cavern at the back of the stage.  In the catwalk slick with tongued batteries.  In the hour after the hour has passed, a lark in which I insert lip.  Should the others have watched the Donahue, then we’d all have known the gruesome twosome made possible beyond the slat of the wettest park bench.  As for just my slender whip of know-how, it couldn’t have cracked.  Have crooked in arm the wetted studious bowed canker. 









Dear Diarama

 

Love me, chupacabra, love me.  Grift from first. Chill wrought from finance, ripped from wrist to tender.  They say it sopa isn’t soap, ropa isn’t rope, and butter is mean to kill you.  What niece across the border, egg yolk on her lip.  What barb freed from the wired, honed and hitched in pocketbook, until such time.  As she be so.  And so, my assignment.







 

 

Dear Diarama

 

The joint flared.  Keep look out, I had meant, but round the corner with a pungent spray and a stiffening feather.  Resin for my cheeks and chin, chirped and pinked the dime store poultice, flammable screech of lace on the buttocks of every fine quarter-hour.  For it was the playground, for it was the supermarket roof, for it was the train track on which before the train I took your cock from its nest and fathomed it with my finger lit.  

 

 

   

 




 












Danielle Pafunda is author of Pretty Young Thing (Soft Skull 2005).  Her poetry and reviews appear or are forthcoming in such publications as Best American Poetry, Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, and TriQuarterly.  She is co-editor of the online journal La Petite Zine.  And on her way to Chile for some months, with partner-in-crime and babe.






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