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Inside Read: Doom ? Love Poems for Supervillains : Canada's ...

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Inside Read is our sampler of new Canadian books we think merit your attention. In DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains, Toronto poet and music journalist Natalie Zina Walschots brings a distinctly erotic edge to her examination of comic book evildoers. Says her publisher: ?DOOM addresses the results of abuses of power and presents a case study on the pathology of villainy.?

Published by kind permission of Insomniac Press.

Image: CoverCatwoman

she creaks in my eaves
a sharp tangle
each curve of her
hones my blades
she is rash and razor-witted

snarled in her hair
she lacerates
cuts my every quick
oh whetstone of appetite

she growls for excision
I long for amputation
slice across the distal phalanx

they assume your weaponry
was all tip and tine

fools ignore
the blades in your eyes


Red Skull

never a victim of acid or blade
merely contraction and keratin, skin?s armour

he grins a nine iron
dapper eclabium
slaps against jackboots
the rigour to my mortis

your cheekbone and orbital
slough dragon scale
islands of skin grind
against each other
bleeding tectonic plates

my body rubble
beneath your blitz
my twisted rune
you flicker heteroclitic

riding crop
a minefield

clutch
choke out
see red

From DOOM: Love Poems for Supervillains by Natalie Zina Walschots. Insomniac Press, 120 pages, $16.95

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