Monday, December 17, 2012



Perfumed with Black Intentions


the oil of a piano bar
leather jackets of idleness
voices in a poker card
cigars that look too high
as she smoothes her lipstick dress
and tapered leg
where nights are black stockings
dressed in a body of intentions
daring enough to wave goodbye
to a white suspender
a wrecking pink thigh
sensuous girl in a hurry of g-string
grinning like a roll of wire
customers waiting for the nipple of night
lace at the edge of the stage
a bald man, losing his front row seat
reaches for the holier grail
like a memory of her scented life
his mark of affection
her last season


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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).

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