This spoon all night on tiptoe
listening for the careless splash
that will never make it back –the cup
half hazelnut, black, half filled
so its prey can be tracked in the dark
the way one mouth finds another
feeds on the voice that can’t escape
–hour after hour being eaten
by the silence longing for the light
though even with the walls in place
even with her hands over your eyes
begging you from behind Guess who
you are circling the room, flying blind
spread-eagle, can hear the You
no longer moving between your teeth.
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