Monday, 28 May 2007

indecent proposal


it was a strip tease on g6
an evacuation from Hades
Serbian coercion at f3
vacant dark squares
after a Bishop cull.

Delirious, the King moved out
dagger in hand, wondering
without baggage,
a somnambulist blindfolded
feeling his way to dusty dearth.

No Dragon to defend him,
the Yugoslav sabre glistened,
a lascivious gaze at a misplaced
queen.
He offered her his head.

Instead she drew her sword,
and like a caged butterfly
taunted by a macabre collector
malicious sport was made.

The soil softened
dreams turned bright red,
to f3 metal whose cold kiss
invited the screams.

An indecent proposal.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Truly, you must be one of the gratest gifts to our theatres...there is no formula to do the sum, Tauriq you add up to so much splendour.