FLASH FLOOD

FLASH FLOOD

as the Cheshire Cat
did say
    (not in so
many words perhaps
hinting
    in a haiku)

chess and
            sex be
the
   upside-downs
of each other

this taking Alice, now
a grown woman,
somewhat
   by surprise, somewhat by
                                   storm

that former
and latter, latter and former

here where the sacrifice first
delivers surrender

            there  where
surrender yields the sacrifice
that
    needs to
be believed

and thus
I would tender, taken together
sex and chess

both tender

the
  flash flood of
a brilliant move

                pretty irresistible
when

       making war in bed
making
love to you across the board

in not so many
words perhaps if
         the poetry comes through)