ELSEWHERE

keeping quiet
command,
unprepared to relinquish
her hold, her
control,
the way she’s behaved,
been untrue,
come undone, been
consumed by distraction,
infraction, the pleasure
of taking,
the aching,
the urgent disrobing
replaying,
deceit, she remains
self-contained,
unashamed, and aware
but unchanged,
patterns of pretense
of conquest
precede her, impede her,
unfaithful, she calls on betrayal
to save her,
uncertain of self,
she consents to misuse,
disloyal,
she stays
at a
distance.