Flea
A red flushed flea takes
intimacy
from the blood of its host
crawls about the house,
visits every bedroom
visits every bedroom
until each inhabitant is
tasted.
It is an easy thing to
feast
on those who sleep alone in
gray-walled rooms. For now
gray-walled rooms. For now
the parasite is full, sated
on
the plasma from nearby duct
work.
Women Bathing -- Nicolas Lancret
