Married forty years to the same man. Ate with her mouth open.
Talked with her mouth full. Masticated his forgetfulness
through two romantic lovers
between the pages.
Cut with some bloodless cold steel then tongued from cheek to cheek morsels of his past with her:
Who lost his false teeth …
… Ieft his pipe on the bin lid outside
… kept new clothes unwrapped for years … did not like driving in the dark … ?
She levered chewed events from good teeth, pushed them down to the acid below
through shredding walls to feed
blood and bile that formed into words goading him to grab the bait.
And when he did she hauled him
in to be filleted, iced and sold to others as good quality food to be eaten.