Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Wet Dream


You slowly 
undress 
button 
by button
breath 
by breath

and here 
I stand

finally 
naked

about 
to burst

Thursday, January 05, 2012

Stolen Moments

What happened, happened once. So now it’s best
in memory – an orange he sliced: the skin
unbroken, then the knife, the chilled wedge
lifted to my mouth, his mouth, the thin
membrane between us, the exquisite orange,
tongue, orange, my nakedness and his,
the way he pushed me up against the fridge –
Now I get to feel his hands again, the kiss
that didn’t last, but sent some neural twin
flashing wildly through the cortex. Love’s
merciless, the way it travels in
and keeps emitting light. Beside the stove
we ate an orange. And there were purple flowers
on the table. And we still had hours.

By Kim Addonizio