As Men and Women Go
They make a perfect couple
yet there is something strange
in this repose,
in the aftermath of love,
in the apple of her cheek,
in the muscle of his throat:
there it goes
slithering.
Kathleen Kenny works as a creative writing tutor at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Sunderland University. She has four published collections of poetry, the latest being Firesprung (Red Squirrel Press, 2008).
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