Poem Submission by Simone Inez Harriman

[Simone Inez Harriman]

Not Your Woman

You drifted agrestal from the north

Feral as a Kaimanawa horse

Well muscled, sure-footed and tough

With a winter chill in your heart

And a devils dirge in your soul

That no love could mend or mellow

Long wild black hair shadows

Scars on chiselled features

Link with chains of tattooed skulls

Lazer eyes hard with long steady gazes

That would suddenly become lost of purpose

Sealed my fatal attraction

I became yours somehow

Though too soon that electric connection

Lost its rhythmic pulse

You were too damaged, too dangerous, and too menacing 

Your mouth a twisted bend in the river

A slow lazy smile or flash flood of whisky anger

High-octane violence and cliff-hanging hangovers

I was soon silenced from the mood of your fist

And learned to beg for my life

In the last near death bashing

The emptiness in me left you

Bad to the bone

In the eye of your storm

A cannonball hole in my heart

I am no longer your woman 

Simone Inez Harriman

(This poem is unpublished)

[Simone Inez Harriman]

Dear Fabrizio,

Could you please replace a word in the 3rd stanza: 'A sly lazy smile or flash flood of whisky anger' to 'A slow lazy smile or flash flood of whisky anger'

Thank you

_________

Done

F.