Succubus Seductress
Carl E. Reed
She comes in darkling night and swaddling dream: an unconscious
avatar of the erotic
unleashed to school the yearning animal body in the arts
of seduction, pleasure and release.
Do not fear what you should welcome and revere, trembling
fawn-legged boy!
—Mistress Katherine: doctor of tantric arts
Asleep in tangled
sheets, hard muscles tensed
ensorcelled
by compelling weirdling dream
bewitched by writhing figure
sensuous—
young lusting
lad groan-moans & fast careens
past the point of no return;
hot spurting sperm
inseminates cold vaginal
walls of mist;
panting
for glossed rosebud lips which burn
his own when hard-pressed
in fiery kiss
he reaches out to mocking,
arch-backed shadow
to awaken with a start at
grim gray dawn
hips & tawny flanks flexing
adagio—
seductress of the
night fast-fading . . . gone.
Sweat-soaked, sticky-bellied,
confused, spent—
dreamland
tryst with erotic revenant.
Carl E. Reed is currently employed as a roofing operations
specialist at a window, siding, and door company just outside Chicago. Former
jobs include: U.S. marine, long-haul trucker, improvisational actor, cab
driver, construction worker, and door-to-door encyclopedia salesman. His poetry
has been published in The Iconoclast, Spectral Realms, Black
Petals, & Deathlehem: Holiday Horrors; short stories in Black
Gate, newWitch, and Sci-Fi Lampoon magazines. “Dinner at
Winthrop’s: A Tale of Sufferance” was published 2020 in the weird romance
anthology Down the Rabbit Hole, vol. III. His most recent weird
fictions “Haunted House” and “Night Terror” will appear in Down the Rabbit
Hole, vol. IV: Madness. “The Candidate” will be published in
Penumbra #3. Additional short stories and poems are scheduled to be published
in 2022 and 2023 in various other venues.