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You Ask What I Want

 

 

You ask what I want

as if we are in a doughnut store,

as if I could say: two glazed,

a chocolate old-fashioned,

or a jelly roll to go.

Always I am without words.

I move my mouth, say nothing.

What is this want?

 

It’s not like that, I say […]

Three A.M.

 

Three a.m. and this is crazy

but I am full and crazy

and I want words for Dylan

asleep on cushions on the floor,

rolling because it’s three a.m.

and the lights are still on.

 

Dylan whose body is still whole

after six years of world,

who loves saunas and hot tubs

and […]

Bodies

 

I like hard bodies and soft bodies,

full bodies and bony bodies,

aggressive bodies and yielding bodies,

pale bodies and dark bodies,

direct bodies and coy bodies.

 

A body is so much all at once

to see, to sense, to touch,

to search for special places,

an intricate cave

January 21st, 2015 | Category: Poems | Leave a comment

Teenage Love Song

 

 

I sit frozen on the couch,

arm around her shoulders.

It is time to take the Next Step

but I am too afraid to move.

 

The seconds tick off my embarrassment,

hang from my eyes like tears of lead,

dragging me down, down.

There is no way forward

and no going back,

[…]

Quartet

 

(1)

Undoing the knots

one by one

like untangling an old pile of string.

I want to be at home in my body again.

 

(2)

I remember

watching the film

when the tears would not hold back.

It was when the beautiful boy

14-year-old gymnast

graceful as a swan

[…]