Trojan Man

          by A.E. Jenks

      Last night I was touched
      by an aged, black-eyed
      Trojan from the back woods.

      He made me fall like a bold faced
      Ballet dancer with unclear eyes.

      We lit through a sensuous, agonizing fever-
      With the optimal balance
      of the Big Dipper.

      He broke the nauseating script,
      Waking my neglected comedy
      with October secrets.

      Combing through the morning
      bonfire with tribal concord.
      Wind-chill bit at his semen.
      Through the breathy encore
      I accepted his release
      Knowing the cold injection
      would rapture me

      Swelling my prolific doubt.

    
    

    First GRIST On-Line publication, 1996. © 1996 A.E. Jenks