original version From Rumours Of Another Summer

Stainless unmarked sky

Single bed against a powder green wall

Magazine photos yellow cellophane taped

No underwear favourite red t-shirt

30/06 lever action

Blue barrel fingerprints

Weevil tick toes

Fly hums between the glass

Until heat makes everything

Even outside

Still.

Beneath that shirt

Each little island bumped

Up to where if a boy

An Adams apple‘d be.

Knee steady butt end

On a white board floor.

Spidering fingers.

Raw cotton breath.

Knowing it’s loaded.

Stainless unmarked

Alone in your room

Sky.

( original work by pd lyons c2009 )