Retinal Fetish
These eyes light up within my mind
A million resplendent eyes
Red and drawn
To suck the life from bone
Rolling their surface elegantly
Over the mount of pale flesh
Gathered up like ribbons
Against the snowy sheets
Flocks of hair
Embrace the cold surface
Rise and fall over the peaks
Of dense folds bent
Over the curvature of spine
Teeth stretch this skein
Pushing to escape
As they suck lusciously
At the cold white eyes
Mirroring the sheets
Cradling the chest
Disjunctive bodies
Disappearing
Into the darkness
Melting away the sheets
Melting away the boundaries
The eyes
The eyes
They become glass
Crystaline and frightening
Till they crack at the fracture of skin
Drawing blood from the gossamer flesh
This obsession destroys your form and we create your own
vol.1 no.3 Fall 1999
Lovely Ugly Brutal World
New regular column by AR
Neuralgia Survey
Poetry:
Entombed--Alix Caldwell
Heartland Film Noir Classic Starring Peter
Lorre --Fetters
Retinal Fetish--AR
Salvador Dalai Lama--David Goth
Untitled--Regina
Transfuse Me--Tom Hamilton
Prose/Short Stories:
Cradle--David Canada
An Episode--A.M. Olsson