Love Skirmishes

Let’s make war by making love,
you proclaimed,
provoking me,
that spring afternoon
by the sea.

We shot each other complicit glances,
we recognized our battlefield,
ready for a hand-to-hand fight,
armed with tongues and lips,
nails and teeth.

We advanced and retreated,
without giving each other respite,
conquering high ground and trenches
until we both laid exhausted,
mutually victorious,
in a blissful embrace.

Marcelo Medone (1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a medical doctor, Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions nominee fiction writer, poet, essayist, journalist, playwright, and screenwriter. He received numerous awards and was published in multiple languages in more than 50 countries around the world, including the US. He currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.