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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Selected Short Poem: Poetics of Intercourse

I, committed writer
of your body,
a scroll of eros;
you, casual reader
of my face,
a map of solitude.

We screw each other
less in reading
than in writing.

Breadcrumb Scabs, 17, May 2010