WHISPERING ROAR
The briefing sergeant
said that the same sex
sexual harassment case
turned into a blanket party
where the overly affectionate
perp morphed into a blood
soaked bed sheet transferred
to some remote outpost
able to rethink the deeper
meaning of his rank and
the men mostly serving
honorably under him, as
the previously innocent
victim started taking on
questioning comments
about his sexuality until
he took a .45 sending
arterial fluid airborne
into some mechanized
military love story
HALLOWEEN NEW YORK CITY
This wax fang wonderland
for orphans was a secret
custody candy factory where
the contents of a wrapper
worked better than correctional
officers at keeping employees
in place, and some of the kids
developed big disaster bag
bellies until one imploded into
heart failure and they disappeared
in the submersion table chocolate
bubbles through a cooling tunnel
like empty cavity artwork into a
post nine-elevenized nation where
monsters bob for the Adams apples
of bad weather brown candy makers
This is sultry, beautiful.. i love your mixture of the two poems.. 🙂