My Mi9nd Is Carnivore
(Silent 9, Hidden 8)
by Paul Tristram / November 10th, 2019
Tooth-thoughts
sliding off
yesterday’s gristle.
I mentally tongue-lap
the blood and gravy
coagulating
around the image
of your
screeching,
blue-sirened,
ambulanced goodbye.
I wipe my mouth
upon a heart-
less sleeve…
as my mind
carrion crow picks
through the
battlefield bones
of your ‘Wreckage’
… lost to all
but, burial memories.
Paul Tristram is a widely published Welsh writer who deals in the Lowlife, Outsider, and Outlaw genres. He wrote his first poem as a teenager following his release from the (Infamous) Borstal ‘HMP Portland’, and he has been creating Literary Terrorism ever since. His novel ‘Crazy Like Emotion’ is available to purchase right
here . Also his collection of shorter fiction Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves' is available to purchase at
https://bookgoodies.com/a/B0DFMTSR4F Both books are published by Close To The Bone Publishing.
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This article was posted on Sunday, November 10th, 2019 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.