Marie Lecrivain’s most recent poem to appear here was “Vitriol” (February 2014).

V. Mare Australe
By Marie Lecrivain

This is where I come
,

when I don’t want
to remember who you are,
or what you did to me.

This is where I find
the cold heart that exists
beneath your alabaster flesh,
the precise icy wind

that evokes your magic touch

and awakens priapic intent.

And here is where I slumber
when the madness threatens
to engulf me
. The calmness

of your cool arms
grants me the only peace
I’ve ever known.