I\u2019m addicted to your
\ndesperate rhythms, I rise and fall with your breath
\nWhen you stop I stop, breathless.
\nI\u2019m starving for your
\nneatness, your careful fingers
\nsewing buttons with tiny thread through tinier holes
\nI\u2019m clawing for your
\ncalm, the lake\u2019s surface
\nhinting at the depth, the way
\nyou create parallel ripples<\/p>\n
And so I hurry home
\nto spill you
\nand taste you as I spell you out<\/p>\n
And when my own writing is done,
\nI\u2019ll read a poem by Elizabeth Smither
\nwhich talks about the gleaming morals of potatoes
\nLaughing, ha! Potatoes don\u2019t have morals
\nbut on poetry they do<\/p>\n
Poetry
\nnot even once. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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