Romance in the Dark

Manny Blacksher lives with his wife Lisa in the port city of Mobile, Alabama. His poems have appeared in The Guardian and Poetry Ireland Review. "Romance in the Dark" is in Short Circuit #07, Short Édition's quarterly review.

"Now we will find what the rest have left behind." —Lil Green There, not here, is wordless. Even whispers don't speak; gasped or groaned sibilance, bray of torrid airs blasting hairs that stray from ears or climb the throbbing nape. Inverse of explaining. There's no proximity— just brush, advancing touch, the eager clutch final as death, as life. We overmuch, coupled as urgent necessity, onrushing body and soul. Or nothing. Absence altogether, abolished us— no you or me alone. No torch song sings what's done, no chansons for utter darkness, love. Stardusts are notions moonshine brings, lyrics

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