Adele Evershed

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Rhyming Couple-let

You told me once / I always left strong words / at the end of my sentences / so
when I talked about us / we sounded like a poem / about lost love or other suffering

You wanted us to be a love sonnet / well ordered stanzas / where you knew what
was coming next / so I changed where the line broke / and no one could tell / where
you ended and I began

But real love is messy / and full of enjambments / a poetry slam / where body
language and hand gestures / are just as important / as the verses / we craft about
ourselves

So when I left / I didn't need onomatopoeic words / to break over your head / No / I
just let my fingers do the talking / as the rest of me / did the walking

Adele Evershed is a Welsh writer living in Connecticut. Some of the places her work has been published include Grey Sparrow Journal, Anti Heroin Chic, Gyroscope, and Janus Lit. Adele has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net for poetry and has two poetry collections, Turbulence in Small Spaces (Finishing Line Press) and The Brink of Silence (Bottlecap Press). She has published two novellas in flash with Alien Buddha Press called Wannabe and Schooled. Her short story collection; Suffer/Rage has recently been published by Dark Myth Publications.