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Greg Braquet
Blurring the Differential

God sent the devil to deal with Eve and so my lower jaw unhinges,
------------an instinctual prep for eating the living or
swallowing desire whole.


In front of me she dangles my skin which has been shed without
------------my knowing or perhaps caring...to feel
only a kiss as I self cannibalize,


my limbs melting into a hot, sleek torso. Who needs constraints?
------------Who needs snake metaphors, when I live for
the hiss or should I say bliss?


My blood is excavated through hers and diverts into powerful
------------currents underneath leather skinned mores,
more reptilian than human or half-human.


I am broken with longing or maybe with passion disguised venom.
------------Can will power be reduce to a worm inside
the apple's mealy resistance?


Eating the good seed never tasted better as I am downed, or am I the
------------one gulping for her indigestible scale, my slit tongue
massaging her body brail for weakness?

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Greg Braquet exists in New Orleans, but like most poets lives in a world of his own schmoosing.  His poetry has appeared in such publications as The New Laurel Review, THEMA, The Tap Root Review, Lucid Stone, Desire Street, Poetry Life & Times, The Breath Magazine,  Red River Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Pierian Springs, Tryst, Side Reality, The Adagio Verse Quarterly, The Little Green Tricycle, The Junket, Tin Lustre, L'Intrigue, Branches Quarterly, Stylus Poetry Journal, Subtle Tea, Poems Niederngasse and The Exquisite Corpse.  He was a recipient of the Delirium Journal's 2003 Choice Award, and placed third in the 2005 Eugene Walter Writers Festival.  email: Greg Braquet