SIOFRA THOMAS

DOG POSE, JULY

that summer,
may : september
lazy ‘s a teenager
recidivist syntax
on full display, i lay
myself in long lines
on your – birthday card,
for no reason other than because i can.

over the shoreline
a glutton’s curve
hangs ungraded
but you
little want-for-nothing,
you get pissed on and sneer
shine impossible in midas robes.

i cock a mongrel tongue
to the quick of it,
mollusced
methinks
c’mon, take this arsehole
out for a walk...

siofra thomas is a poet and a translator.