Jason Hardung

GUN BARREL LIPS

She is a shadow flicked by candle
light dancing madly in the doorway
firing silver-tipped words from gun barrel lips.
That the night before
were wrapped around my swollen ego
and I felt like a man.
She gazed up at me with child-like eyes every
now and then to drive the point home
and I fell into them.  Now
out the window, riding autumn's back,
twilight fades like adolescence
a drawn out blink.
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