The Thing We Never Say

Poem by Bradford Gyori

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The thing we never say waits to ambush good intentions,
hides in the tangle that constitutes the lovers,
determines the angle of one limb enfolding another,
navigates the crush of armies and orgies,
shimmers in the instant when the villainess repents.
 
The thing we never say is hard as Chinese algebra,
Soft as frost-whiskered innuendos furring broken tongues,
snared somewhere out there on the ass end of a stutter,
dot dot dotting an ellipsis.