kissing
your beautiful mouth
with full red lips
oh gloss!
doesn’t bother me
I want that
Profondo Rosso
smeared across
my lips and beard
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Scotland’s best kept secret, nicky [nick-e] melville has been described variously as an ‘avant-radge’ and ‘a poet.’ His magnum-opus The Imperative Commands came out with Dostoyevsky Wannabe in 2022 and Decade of Cu ts, his selected poems, was published in 2021 with Blue Diode Press.Â