STREETWALKER • by Mark Dalligan

Neon cascade washes her
peroxide-blonde raven black,
silhouettes at the shoulder.
Dark lashes open/close as each new actor,
touches, tastes, and kills his ardour.
Confectioner’s shop with plastic display,
barley sugar lips, candy floss hair,
eyes lozenge-grey.
Walking, blue-jeans,
past the green youth in the theatre square,
to the striptease-joint, where raincoats stare,
through alcoholic or excited haze,
for the long-legged lady in black-net.

Mark Dalligan‘s fiction has been published in the Boston Literary Magazine, Ranfurly Review, Apollo’s Lyre, The Beat, Bewildering Stories, MicroHorror, EDF etc. He has only just started growing poems and is not yet sure if they’re mushrooms or toadstools.

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STREETWALKER • by Mark Dalligan, 3.6 out of 5 based on 17 ratings
Posted on November 13, 2008 in Poems
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11 Responses to “STREETWALKER • by Mark Dalligan”


  1. Scarlett Says:
    November 12th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

    Ohhhh… well… except for the very last line, I was gonna give it a 5. :( The last line is a disappointment somehow. The rest totally kicks ass, however. :) (yours in Chaos, Scarlett)

  2. K.C. Ball Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 12:37 am

    Tasty, Mark! Tightly written with great imagery. Definitely a mushroom. ;)

  3. Oonah V Joslin Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 5:34 am

    Thank you Mark. :)

  4. Sarah Hilary Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 8:40 am

    Great work, Mark! Killer last line.

  5. Robin Herrnfeld Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    You conjure up a vivid picture. Well done.

  6. rumjhum Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    As tight as the tights the lady wore! :-)

  7. jennifer walmsley Says:
    November 14th, 2008 at 2:00 am

    Great poem, Mark.

    Jennifer

  8. Erin Says:
    November 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Wow… very vivid!

  9. Mark Dalligan Says:
    November 15th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    Hi everyone,

    thanks for commenting. Glad you liked it.

    Cheers

    Mark

  10. Gray Says:
    November 18th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    I love the imagery. Great.

    Gray

  11. mark dalligan Says:
    November 19th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Thanks Gray.

    Mark

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