well theresa / Pete Donohue

well theresa
it didn’t take long
from body to bones
i remember clearly
your translucent skin
thinly stretched
across an elegant frame
barely touched
by sunlight or human hand
the latticework puzzles
of those magenta veins
scarlet nail polish
sloppy & chipped
subtle blonde lawns
carpeting intimate female places
& those plum-tinged lips
rare rosebuds of promise
we navigated nights
sharing darkness with moonlight
during those sleepless times
our insecurities matched
a friendship without sex
more important than anything
in our youthful days
until you took that warm bath
& surrendered to the water.

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Ireland born and London raised Pete Donohue works in community mental health in amazing Hastings on the dirty south coast of England. His poems and short stories have been published by numerous underground and alternative small presses in the UK and USA. After three sold out chapbooks, his first full collection of poetry, swallowing paregoric babies, is published by UnCollected Press (available from: www.therawartreview.com). He is currently working on a collection of short stories.

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