Larkin’ About in the Garden of Misogyny


After hacking away
at your power of self-healing,
I prune the point and think,
“How pretty you look today.”
With your foilage resplendent,
variegated for my eyes,
inspiration is written
naked in your spastic guise.
I scoff at this irony,
easily denying my sin,
while the parts of you
I’d rather not view
fall casually into the bin.

~EB