Melinda Smith #4 Delilah’s promise

Spider web with dewdrops, Red Hill, ACT, 2015

Delilah’s promise
My snare
(barely-there)
is threaded
with small pearls of malice
jewelled
with every glittering thing
in your secret heart.
A frosted tracery of eyelashes

spread in the silk wind
it breathes like an animal.
In the end
you will beg me
to bind you
in its gorgeous cords
and swallow you
whole

© Melinda Smith 2016