FAMILY SECRETS-a rare and nicely abstracted presentation of the failure of an attempted brother and sister incest

countless darnings of minds'
explanations
that spermy night of drab renown

pernod of licorice spilling
over her thighs of chance
our unsettled merriment never knowing where to land

our silly ripostes
demanding a touch
a look

not the whirr of sparrows
across our barren heaven
or the finality of a sibling's dry kiss