And Like It

This won't be sweet 

like a little caramel delight between meals

There will be nothing tender about this

I will have you on this couch

rip those black boxers off

and beat back the noise of the day

with the smacking of skin on skin

I will draw the rune of power

all over your body

with my tongue

and scar it into your flesh

with my teeth

so later

you will not mistake

this memory

for a dream

April 28, 2022

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 28

National Global Poetry Writing Month 2022

Magnetic Poetry pull: And, Beat, Black, Boxers, Caramel, Couch, Delight, Dream, It, Like, Little, Noise, Power, Rune, Tender.