Capitulations

Let’s workshop this poem about a man dwindled in power after many years of marriage

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Capitulations 

Once an orca with no 
dorsal droop, but now coddled 
on captivity’s meat-whenever, 

he dared pounce only upon
meat too limp to mount him 
(let alone to sport lingerie)—

and so she hung her ass out
the sheets (dead still) to stoke 
his gaze-holding confidence.

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This poem is unpublished

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