adultery

 adultery should have been harder
harder to accomplish
and harder to bear

instead this beginner found solace
and satisfaction with a lover
not  free to be hers

her expense for the affair was
perfume the price of rent
movie star hair
and being in control
learning how to dominate
speak low and soft always
lick and kiss like a whore

grant her lover the reality of
fevered imaginings
once thought
unattainable

her emotions were so dusty
she choked on her own
ruthlessness

and the wedding banded
lover trembled beneath
her body


she worked slowly
time was her slave
she cared not for the
hours or days
she was immune to worry

she simply lived each moment
laughing on her flying carpet
all her belongings in a used neverfull

her lover craved
this opium-scented gypsy
who spoke slowly and moved
like sand in an hourglass
her laugh a ripple in a summer lake

but the lover came fast and hard
or sometimes achingly slow
and forever, tears collecting
behind fluttery eyes

she gifted her  lover
with pieces of silver
to touch and fondle
when she decided to travel
for days and days

until
dusk was a certain shade of red
she would return
so still so sure

listening to lover's days that she missed
more still and secretive than mona lisa
she would whisper her stories
oh those whispers
of things forbidden and wrong

she gifted lover with
an impossibly expensive
watch

lover never saw her again
returned to his wife
refusing to tell her how
he developed a taste
for this and that

or why he smashed every
clock in their home.