Alison Stone
Warning
Surrendering to hunger's whims won't end well,
Proserpine in her cold bedroom knows.
Six seeds for half-eternity of hell.
A lover has more faces than he shows.
Proserpine in her cold bedroom knows
dark glamour and initial bliss deceive.
A lover has more faces than he shows.
Once the pleasure's gone, it's best to leave.
Dark glamour and initial bliss deceive.
Desire can devolve into a trap.
Once the pleasure's gone, it's best to leave,
though often we don't. Caress turns into slap.
Desire can devolve into a trap –
six seeds for half-eternity of hell.
Often we stay, despite caress turned into slap.
Surrendering to hunger's whims won't end well.
Bio
Alison Stone is the author of nine full-length collections, Informed (NYQ Books, forthcoming), To See What Rises (CW Books, 2023), Zombies at the Disco (Jacar Press, 2020), Caught in the Myth (NYQ Books, 2019), Dazzle (Jacar Press, 2017), Masterplan, a book of collaborative poems with Eric Greinke (Presa Press, 2018), Ordinary Magic, (NYQ Books, 2016), Dangerous Enough (Presa Press 2014), and They Sing at Midnight, which won the 2003 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award; as well as three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and many other journals and anthologies. She has been awarded Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly's Madeline Sadin Award. She was Writer in Residence at LitSpace St. Pete. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot. A licensed psychotherapist, she has private practices in NYC and Nyack. https://alisonstone.info/ and TikTok – Alison Stone Poetry.