Michele Seminara
True Crime
I’ve been consuming
too many crime podcasts,
have started locking the door
perceiving pervy neighbours
and opportunistic strangers
trailing silver semen on my windowsills and floor.
On Twitter, a mother marks
her daughter’s inaugural public groping,
while my own child crests
the dangerous circumference of her imminent flesh —
the world pre-emptively turning to trawl
her for its pleasure and perversion.
It is a dark world in which we dare love.
Lured by the luminol glow of the lifeblood of
Ebony Simpson
Anita Coby
Samantha Knight
Tegan Lane
Graeme Thorne
Trudie Adams
Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt
I brood deep into the murky night
over
how it’s usually men who — ?
why so many women are — ?
that our forsaken children must — ?