Nikki

I called creepy Nikki at midnight
she said be right over, came over
and over
Nikki in the flooded colors of the cresting Mississippi
swept in mudslide through my apartment window
greasy gallows in yellow cordage crowned
she wore a wreath of her passion
some fleeting wraith she was
in alley cat shadows and trash can braggadocio
pulling on her bluejeans like prisoner's chains
her wide glazed smile spilling LOLs
in ragtime tip-toeing a two-step only her
cajun great grandmothers might recognize
Nikki in wet friction eventually pranced away
pearls of choice wisdom glistening on
the cleft of her thigh.

TA