Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE IN BLACK AND WHITE, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth salty with the taste of your flesh Last Line: Across the sparrow's waking. Subject(s): Love; Sex | ||||||||
My mouth salty with the taste of your flesh, we lie tangled - sand and sea wrack. Your arms the color of my mother's cocoa, of April earth fresh under the harrow, of all the bark of all the trees I have loved stark under a winter sun. In this half-light of love my flesh is a pale shadow of yours, as though night cast a moon ghost - paper origami patterns of thighs and knees - my skin a moth wing of your dusk. But the stain of us on the inside of my thigh is colorless - an egg-white etch or the glue children use to cement model airplanes, make-believes of wings and bombs. Quiet as light you lie upon my thigh, a Sesame of all the seeds we will not give the sun drying to a puckering scab. And as dawn dissolves our half-light back to the definition of black-and-white our mouths meet once more across the sparrow's waking. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LIE DOWN WITH A MAN by TONY HOAGLAND ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER PORTRAIT WITH BROWN HAIR by DONALD JUSTICE NATIONAL NUDIST CLUB NEWSLETTER by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM BLACKOUT SONNETS by JOAN LARKIN SEX IS NOT IMPORTANT by JAN HELLER LEVI WHAT THE MAGDALENE SAW by TIMOTHY LIU |
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