Black Petals Issue #97, Autumn, 2021

Succubus Seductress
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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.

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