Brown and Pink

            Brown and Pink

The bracken, as life does, has turned to rust.

They make their way up through it, rustling through

The brown.  They need to find a way to thrust

In love — or something like it.  He shoves spew

Inside pink guts once they are over hill

And out of sight.  Rose guts receive that love,

Its color not like rusted metal, spill

Of off-white slime instead, the loving shove

Delivering the gusts in darkness, deep inside.

They both desire that stuff will not leak out.

The one receiving it has opened wide

And now wants capture of the spurts,  the spout.

  Clammed love is clamped inside the sloping pink,

    That softest, tightest, slickest greedy chink.

Phillip Whidden