Red Light

Francis Bacon, Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (detail)
Red Light is one of two poems published in The Purposeful Mayonnaise Issue 3.1 in June 2023. It is inspired in part by the intimacy between husbands, wives and strangers.


Red Light

Your body quartered by sunlight
Divided on linen.

Beneath a ceiling fan's
Lazy orbit through
Heavy air.

Heeled steps echo beyond the door
As you wait for it
And her to open.


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