white picket fucked

this cinched
through ground
teeth taught
jaw, some

stripped gear, bum
nerve and no
bouquet in a
set of
stronger hands

his wife and her
man and a half empty
nest, broken bailing
backward,
white picket fucked

and the dream man:
wretched and whiskey
whittled, what depths
have you to see

in the wounds you wreak?