Scott-Patrick Mitchell
blue
i’ll offer you my mouth
my silent abject mouth
this awaiting state of
penetration this
disempowerment we
carry out daily like a
state of consensual
rape
everything comes down
to a mouth & saying yes
you may progress, you
may take me elsewhere
if you can excuse the
mess
push past & through
to my cold hard blue
receptive
i cannot speak
as you lift my belly
& thrust & burn
inside of me
¿ what is that sound
in the distance that
warns me not to be ?
here, you lick my back
the nape of my neck
reach to kiss my lips
but find my ear instead
i hear no language between
us, only sound: a muted TV
screen chills us into a static
silhouette as you carry out
your soliloquy of sex
i am blue
with you
inside of
me
i am uncertain of what this
will bring, how everything
comes down to a mouth &
three letters, the plus &
the negative: life is just a
mathematical equation
alone in an indigo sky of
my own despise i wait for
this to end
oh richard of york, is there
now a battle in veins as we
wait, afterward, to find out
if you were a big mistake
push past & through
cause me to bruise
i am blue
with you
inside of
me
Scott-Patrick Mitchell’s work appears in New Poets (Fremantle Press, 2010) and Performance Poets (Fremantle Press, 2013) (Fremantle Press) as well as in The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry (Desperation Press/ turnrow Books, 2013), Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016) and The Fremantle Press Anthology of Contemporary West Australian Poetry (2017). SPM is the Social Media Coordinator for WA Poets INC / Perth Poetry Festival.
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Write a poem that includes colors. Today’s poem uses “blue” and “indigo,” and the phrase “oh richard of york, is there / now a battle in veins” is an allusion to a mnemonic for remembering the colors of the rainbow, “Richard of York gave battle In vain” (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).