The Frisson of Amorous Phrases

In.ter.X.ting: Hybrid poetry

Photo by John Rocha: https://www.pexels.com/photo/grayscale-photo-of-naked-woman-230986/

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
— Roland Barthes, Le Plaisir Du Texte

shrewd Eros
that outrageous flirt
floods my screen with flashbang sentences
& suspect vows of vulpine flesh

each persuasive Pavlovian ping pong penetrates with a throbbing thought — a gorgeous galloping, our grammar galumphing — carelessly strumming my strings with your thumping — striving senses strain but never quite

touch
voluptuous torrents
tornados of text

computing:uprooting:::rerouting

euphoric euphemisms strut like sultans — extravagant rhymes run rivulets around my reason & I relish each ravishing: the frisson of amorous phrases & fricatives — heavy petting our heart-baring banter

jolt.jostle.
jest.riposte —

In.
ter.
X.
ting

documenting our devastating disembodied vernacular, we conjoin with conjunctions & pierce with punctuation — anticipation threads arteries with every enticing allusion birthing “the…