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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOTEL THULE, by KERRI WEBSTER
First Line: Voluptuous, then merely sticky: to absorb him through
Subject(s): Arctic
First Line: Voluptuous, then merely sticky: to absorb him through
Subject(s): Arctic
Voluptuous, then merely sticky: to absorb him through
my palms. We were as Danes in Denmark, thus I thought
bathwater and longingly, thought how kneeling hurts the
knees, then ghost-gravel. I was Marriott-air-conditioned
unto artic, not remedied by his warmth an inch east. I
thought surely the ice must calve, then forthwith. Or was
it Ramada, Ramada. In those stories, men stitch coarse
blankets together and spoon, or Strauss-waltz on blinding
ice. In those stories, such measures save no one. What
does: deep consummation; marrow from the shin-bone.
Copyright © Kerri Webster.
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