Boardwalk

I skip between your kisses
like a kid on the boardwalk
Put your arm around my waist
Be my plush purple ring toss win

I clutch tickets, your sticky words
Here come the unicyclists
spinning blue and gold
Here I am in a silver sequin bikini

backflipping at a kajillion feet
both hands outstretched
for meeting your hands
no net

Copyright Credit: Mohja Kahf, "Boardwalk" from My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit.  Copyright © 2020 by Mohja Kahf.  Reprinted by permission of Press 53, LLC.
Source: My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit (Press 53, LLC, 2020)