Temperance

By W. Ella Block

Copyright ©2025

Good girl

beautiful         

eyes

glancing downward

palms open

heart tilting

outward

ass lifting

upward.

How beatific

she gives

            gives

                        gives

all she has

will you take it

for her

please

her

need

her

legs spread wide

open, waiting

for you

to take what she offers

her heart—bruised

                        pummeled the way she likes it

            the way she wants

you to have it

the weight of her

pent-up need her

burning passion for yours.

Agony

is pleasure

to the masochist.

About W. Ella Block:

W. Ella Block (she/her) is a queer poet and writer based in St. Louis, Missouri. In her poetry, she explores the intricacies of power dynamics and the beauty that can result from them.