Tad Richards

 

SOOKIE

 

Donna wants

to use my muse Sookie

for the weekend

it might be arranged

I’m writing

 

on the responsible

use of money

Sookie could care less

she responds

mainly to oral sex

 

I warn Donna

that can be arranged

she says but

Sookie’s temperamental

you have to press

 

 

 

 

your strenuous tongue

against her grape

just short of bursting it

so Sookie says

but when things get hot

 

she’ll yawn and

criticize my technique

remind me of

other lovers who

did it better

 

Patti Marshock

SOOKIE LYING

 

The moon was a sickle

and cell walls were warmer

 

Sookie's hand roamed on top

of the knit two, purl two, blanket

 

my mother left me. It didn't cover

her thighs, she said she'd grown

 

in the past couple of years

Accustomed to the feel of feather

 

beds and the smell of bayberry

she didn't like the sofa

 

so she moved onto the floor

and lit the next cigarette

 

while the one before still smoldered

a long, long ash

Donna Jackson

MISTRESS SOOKIE

Sookie arrives
in fishnet
and leather, paddle
in hand, straight as a queen.
Half immortal,

both beauty
and bale, she mounts me.
Her patent stilettos
dimple my chest.
She demands

oral attention.
But tonight I just laugh,
pour a bourbon
and offer
her a cigarette.

Now Sookie’s all comfort,
resting her heels
on my lap.
I am her ashtray
until she grows bored, steals

my bed all night,
delegates
me to the throw rug.
Tomorrow she may bring
me to Sparta.