Herbaceous Corpus

Trad-Life: concealing jealous longings for your sapphic lover across the parlor.

Herbaceous Corpus  
Prescription: Mint Julep
 
re/forms
the disturbed 

      feminine 
      condition,
      sedates

"female complaint”

       painted
       egg-shell
       hysteria.

debbie taunts
at her coming-out ball.

it’s recommended
to suck on a
bourbon cocktail

and fist sapphic 
sighs between 

breast   bone
cinch-   ed in;
corset-  closeted.

once properly pickled,
 
neatly     coil
sterile     bowels     
into        the family

chifforobe.

cadaver suspended,

anesthetize in/delicate
embroidery, 

an itinerant lover’s self-surgery.  

southern lip loving
southern bell-
igerent. drink up!

if you want peace, 
para bellum, bitch.