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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLAYING SOMEONE ELSE'S PIANO, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: Touching you / slipping fingers between your thighs Last Line: Which only the other can hear. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos; Sex | |||
Touching you slipping fingers between your thighs to hold the cluster of grapes whose skin is frail as 5 AM light - the stem thrusts hard from them - I do not know how my hand feels. Your mouth gentle as a cat's muzzle at my nipple your hand brushing my brusque fur to find the limpet of my sex - they do not know how their feel touches. Holding you and as much held each of us fingers a song - the keys pressed black and white - yet we are deaf to the chords of our own hands which only the other can hear. | 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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