There is a line out the door, down the street and past a strategically placed pretzel vendor. The crowd is nattily dressed, a little giddy, pressed close together against the cold, under the scaffolding above the side of the building. Two forty-ish women giggle with each other, excited and a bit wary.
All business, I bypass the crowd and head in past the doormen. The entry is glossy looking - very white with well designed branding in black and red. So this is the Museum of Sex.
You are free fall
As my head tips back
only your hands
At the dip
Where spine meets tail
My hair sways
as you rock me kissing
Feeling air most
Where you kissed last
Skin brightens
Pinkens, shivers
Crawling towards your last touch
breathing in swallows
Shallow huffs
While humming from my chest
You, you if just now you
Feels feathers, grand weight
At once in your arms.
September 22, 2000
There ain’t enough room in this room
you over there
so close to my here
When we fight
there is no room no where
that fits you and me
Anger sits in the middle
That issue, that fault
takes away grace and space and beauty
and you are not beautiful to me
no more
Grammar goes and language falls into
me, mine, stuff, stuff, stuff
Until my and your
me and you
this and that
becomes we
And the room seems so large again.
April 22, 1996
I don’t know how or when
Like seeds in the spring
Or maybe late winter
No one knows the exact second or time
Not voices in the wind or sky
Knows when they germinate (more…)
Distance that hooks in my spine holding me down
a frenzy of spectral wasps on my skin graze
frustrated desire surrenders splashdown
render me into uncommon limbs that splays
this pink meat of me for your vulpine hunger
your tongue binds me in absent eloquence
the date of your arrival seems far longer
the need for you immediate permanence
you call out again, feed you me in morsels
soothe these burns under my skin with your soft voice
talking down the swarm as it drones and rumbles
a fascination becomes singular choice
you grasp my longing in capable caring
held in a seven hundred mile pairing
November 14, 2000