The cigarette between her teeth
flared
like the nostril of a dragon
while she glowered
silently
across the table.
The cigarettes gleamed
in the smoke shack
like the eyes of
headlight-hypnotized deer
gathered in the dark
of their nicotine addiction.
The cigarette butt scattered
as sparks across the highway,
a phoenix run aground
and burning itself out
one final time.
As a nova
too far away to be of consequence,
the cigarette extinguished
upon Brahma’s breath.
The word seared and scarred
as a hot cigarette
pressed hard upon the flesh.
Fading in luminosity
as a beatnik on stage
running low
on mojo,
the cigarette butt sputtered out.
Unlit, the cigarette was as an
unborn infant
awaiting the burning away
of innocence.
She took his meaning
the wrong way
as a tongue takes a lit cigarette
backwards.
The ash tray welcomed the cigarette
as a grave the gravedigger.
She signed the divorce papers
by the light of
the lipstick-stained cigarette
she found by the nightstand
of their marriage bed.
The cigarettes were shuffled
in their pack
by a careless hand, all conscripted
into a unit of soldiers
soon to be burned away
by the whim of idle lips.
Stoked kindling
to start the wildfire
consuming the black forest
of the lungs,
the cigarettes burned.
Under her smoldering heart
his manhood burned itself out
as a cigarette
lost in her brassiere.
Stephen Marshall. Writer, illustrator, layabout. Find him on Amazon, maybe. He has paperback and kindle books listed there. He also writes Supernatural Romance under the name S.C. Foster (because his fiancee pushed him to do so). He seems to have a knack for the Romance genre, much to his chagrin. Having pursued Children's literature he is particularly proud of his Children's novel series "Lost And Found", which begins with "Chloe Among The Clover", continues recently with "Stormy Within The Strawberry Patch" and may, in some future potentiality, culminate with "Candice Through The Picket Fence". These are novels for children (including his insistent nephew), but they are also written for adults who are children at heart. His short story collection, "The Eldritch Diaries", centers primarily upon Cosmic Horror and Body Horror, combining Lovecraft's mythos with the motifs of Sigmund Freud. His largest poetry collection, "Broken Crown Kings", contains over two hundred poems and two short novellas concerning the fleeting nature of the world and Man's place within it. Recently he has published a smaller book of poetry concerning Kentucky, Moonshine, and Ghosts called "Moonshine And Spirit Chasers". A much larger collection, entitled '"Nevermore" 99 Rhymes For $0.99' is also available. For those seeking supernatural and folklore, his collection "Weeping Cherry" is available also.
https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Marshall/e/B07536QKD9?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_fkmrnull_1&qid=1554215427&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
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