Spoon
Past brambles of duck feathers
through thin mattress covers
four legs nestled together
kindling stacked cross-hatched
They weaved and writhed
as plump hot earthworms
squirming in their musky stickiness
knees brushing inside thigh clefts
Arms wrapped a muscle nest
around two heart eggs
rocking in breathless sleep
in thump judder bone thatch
Until thick duvet shells crack
with sealed eyes and open mouthed
we eat away the night a newborn
love spooning in steaming heat
image: Katharine Martin
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