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).