Helen St, 01:23 AM

A minute hum in you builds to a purr
claws stem from my fingertips
I endure on your restless touch
                                    and topple Troy

You mewl
pretty pet
soft as kitten fur

Later
your grip firms
my body twisted oak
bent and blissful

When we are spent
these thin walls reveal those beyond
boys brashly bantering
                         home from a gig
I imagine what they might have heard
not knowing us restless souls lay awake
                         here for a fuck

I whisper poetry
and really need a piss

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Alexandra Cherian (she/they) is a filmmaker, writer, and girltwink extraordinaire from Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She has been published in bad apple, Overcom, and Starling among others, and is a founding member of queer filmmaking collective The New New.