up and
back in a
dizzying cloud,
breasts newly freed, now
swinging limply
swinging limply
apart overhead
in the mouth-
watering lowlight
that's draping the Egyptian
cotton-sheeted bed,
and—
in the mouth-
watering lowlight
that's draping the Egyptian
cotton-sheeted bed,
and—
what happens next,
you'll take your time
honing,
you'll take your time
honing,
spend your nights
cleaning, protecting, and sharpening—
for use
as a weapon
against the frittered
away to flat-
lining remainder of your life.
away to flat-
lining remainder of your life.
*
Implausibly—no time
really feels like
the first time
you experienced this.
And the last time
really feels like
the first time
you experienced this.
And the last time
you do,
from some
bed you don't own,
from some
bed you don't own,
it'll only make sense to you
that once
you did, and now
you did, and now
don't, and soon
won't—but still do
your best
to enjoy lying
your best
to enjoy lying
back and
reenacting the sen-
sation
of picturing yourself
of picturing yourself
knowing
just how to
imagine having felt and acted
in that old dream-
purchased bed
from time
to time, when the
mood strikes, or else never
does again.
just how to
imagine having felt and acted
in that old dream-
purchased bed
from time
to time, when the
mood strikes, or else never
does again.