Rule Book

Rule Book.

Never unfurl

tender shoots, gentle thoughts

of love. Swallow them like sour pills.

Poison

Dissolved

Thank you

For the cruel twist

For the shock of the knife

Slicing down to my crumbling bones,

Dissolved.

Cinquain for Cecil

Cecil,

Baby Herod,

Macabre, murdering cat,

Sly, silver, yellow-eyed

Sadist.

Cinquain to Kipper

Spotty mutt,

with creaking joints,

A languid lifetime spent

picking your hair off black cashmere

jumpers.

Cinquain for Boo

Shy Boo

Dark beady eyes 

Peeping beneath a fringe

There were 3 of us in this marriage

They say