BawdryBeautyBelief


from a

by Sophie Robinson

from a, I: Interior

TESCO 3-PLY TISSUE
slope like that it learns to fit my finger slide my
finger to soften on bones to kiss to the tip

DARK GREY DRAINPIPE JEAN
an outwardness a ground teeth on teeth you loved;
breathy intake or some wet.

KNEE-LENGTH POLKA DOT SOCK
My shoulder playful and turned away toward the lake
between your knees.

NIVEA SENSITIVE HAND CREAM
Prune-child ashen in the sun in the day in the late
afternoon or early evening at dusk by the window
or just outside or far away with heady scent and so
pointed and so cold; or, an automatic squeeze a
mechanical gesture. Jerk.

from a, II: Geometries

The upright nature of a girl, belied by
formless whirrs, signs of visible lust like the
density of skies, & the disappearing hour;
I think of you urgent & weak walking beside
billboards, missing out, flaking off in the
silence between 2 traxx, no tender riot
in your geekheart [spliced open & pulsating
in four different places whilst the summer
is blaring musty and lithe, awful shiny
skin & sick tune of birds germinating light
as a new kind of loudness] & the crude urban
cosmos misses you & is just passing the
time w/ dirt & money & pouting in the
corner w/out your nocturno-suspicious lure.

[continues in a]