Oedipal Eyes
by: Joy Reid

Slowly       you draw        out       another
sharp as a javelin
needle fine.

Cold hard marbles           teeter
spirals of imprisoned colour
easily shattered.

To you
it's a game
remove a spike………..see what happens.

Kerplunk!

I should be
grateful
for your unsubtle torture
this snarl of spines       awaiting        extraction

is cold turkey.
And I would be grateful
but
for punctures left
slow weeping like                   Oedipal eyes.