Sex Education: Two poems by Jennifer Lagier
Two Poems by Jennifer Lagier 1965 Sex Education It was the summerhigh school boys bloomed with octopus hands, inescapable tongues, atomic erections. At slumber parties,we compared contraceptive folklore, thirteen-year-old girls with awakening hormonesin shortie...
July by Michele Mekel – poetry
July by Michele Mekel Summer fruit sundered. Gently thumbed rents reveal flesh— overripe, swollen— like her sex, trickling pungent nectar at the least caress. Michele Mekel is a writer and editor; educator and bioethicist; poetess and creatrix; witch and woman....
Bedtime Voice: Two poems by Judyth Hill
Two Poems by Judyth Hill Silk Camisole Love on a hot day-bouquet of weak in the kneesdark night toss and turntwisted sheets wind in the pines,the way sand stays warmlong after dusk, and stillthe waves of that sultry sea wash in and in. Oit’s part tropical,mostly...
Your Hands: Two poems by Uzomah Ugwu
Two Poems by Uzomah Ugwu My Body Spoke His Name You spoke my name havingMy body echo your intentionsWhen your hands raised the hairs Left on my body up not cut fromThe most recent shaveWanted to hideTo be perfect and smooth for you For you to slide with ease not...