Movie

By Eileen Myles

You’re like

a little fruit

you’re like

a moon I want

to hold

I said lemon slope

about your

hip

because it’s one

of my words

about you

I whispered

in bed

this smoothing

the fruit &

then alone

with my book

but writing

in it the pages

wagging

against my knuckles

in the

light like a

sail.

Copyright Credit: Eileen Myles, “Movie” from Sorry, Tree. Copyright © 2007 by Eileen Myles. Reprinted by permission of Wave Books.

Source: Sorry Tree (Wave Books, 2007)