CLOSE WINDOW

 

 

 

EXEDRA

All these conclusions about the lack of something,
the shafts of light, the shifts of desire,
with eyes closed your initial warm kisses caught me looking,
how much the gesture, each contour of your blossoming
skin, firm lines made pink across the brawn and furrows,
the salt, the lofty tone of flesh, as I left to eradicate
the antonyms of becoming here—and living there endless,
the glass brick melting.
In the dream our tribe was called Equivocal, Irreparable,
and I could hardly get this hand around your phallus:
repeating Mud Dog Mother to myself
—while the water of the bodies
in the earth evaporated.


Amulet | Anatomy

by Roberto Tejada

(2002)

Cover by Thomas Glassford