I Gave You My—

carefully folded, swooned, postpartum

posthaste—

my letter to you, I gave—

curious, you said uncanny you

said the color of my eyes in this light

is a different shade of green said

you don't eat meat but you wear

leather outside the birds

& inside the sun on the chair

& my thighs spread &

stick to the plastic &

you said you loved

it & the ampersand & my swoon

silently inside my skirt & the ochre

on the building changes to umber

in the light & the tree outside is

bare & I am, my foot inside my slipper

my toes curled behind & ow & yes

& some days are sunny days & some

days are

Source: Mysterious Acts by My People (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014)