Virginity
By Jake Skeets
Clouds in his throat,
six months' worth.
He bodies into me
half cosmos, half coyote.
We become night
on Bread Springs
road. Shirts off,
jeans halfway
down, parked
by an abandoned
trailer. "No one
lives here,"
he whispers.
We become porch
light curtained
by moth wings,
powdered into ash.
Copyright Credit: Jake Skeets, "Virginity" from Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouth Full of Flowers. Copyright © 2019 by Jake Skeets. Reprinted by permission of Milkweed Editions.
Source: Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouth Full of Flowers (Milkweed Editions, 2019)