Complications in the Art of Monogamy or Conjoined Twins

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Sheets hung from lines block
the sight of a half-man in full
rapture. A wife wraps round her
side of a torso, her legs quiver
at climax. Clutching the edge
of a bed, brother tries to quiet
his blind effort, bending to
the will of brother’s movements.
Both undone in, tonight not his
woman. Blue morning clutches
his empty limbs. He falls asleep
to the soft coos of brother’s bird-
song singing beautiful into
the matted web of bride’s hair.
Breath joining three to a rhythm
of one.
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Sister died before her. The living woman refuses to be cut from the corpse. She says, As we came together, so we go together. Dragging loose legs across the kitchen floor, she puts a kettle on. Sipping hibiscus, she feels her sister’s cold lips kiss their neck.

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During sex, a conjoined twin will slip behind
………the consciousness of the other
to provide privacy. While searching his wife’s
………living dust for the light kneaded there,
he grieves for the loss of his brother.
………The wall of flesh rises with cell
division. Wife longs for the hirsute feel
………of her Wolfman ex-lover.
Every kiss begs to break bread—
………to have multitudes dwell together
in the pleasure of light upon light upon light.

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Conjoined sister at thirty masturbates for the first time. The weight of her dead sister draped next to her, she forgets the corridors of their limbs. Body overrun by light. Desire shucked off, she moans the song of settling earth. Dusk covers her. Alone and complete.
 
 
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