Sex Hex, etc.

Sex Hex
by Michael R. Burch

 
Love’s full of cute paradoxes
(and highly acute poxes).
 

Resemblance
by Michael R. Burch

 
Take this geode with its rough exterior --
crude-skinned, brilliant-hearted ...
 

a diode of amethyst -- wild, electric;
its sequined cavity -- parted, revealing.
 

Find in its fire all brittle passion,
each jagged shard relentlessly aching.
 

Each spire inward -- a fission startled;
in its shattered entrails -- fractured light,
 

the heart ice breaking.

 
Originally published by Poet Lore

Reviews

[Connor Veenstra]

The first poem's funny if "acute poxes" means what I think it means.

I just really like the rock imagery in the second one.

[Michael R. Burch]

I think "acute poxes" can be interpreted liberally. ;-)

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment!