Love Poem: Spike
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Written by: Tony Bush

Spike

You have left me 
to self-inflicted self-pity, 
impasse of the atoms 
cleaved asunder in the thalamus.

Seismic thermology, the scorch 
of Tempus fever, 
hacked clinic of the circuitry, 
bypass of the thirsting valve.

To that which I aspire, 
bitten copper of the stripping wire, 
sick telegraph doves keel, 
falling dead, snowdrops on asphalt.

You have left me 
in this cage of dogs, 
abandoned with the temporal spike 
that spears and gores the 
hounds of love to 
bloodied, gestalt death...