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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO BATHS: 2, by MICHAEL WATERS Poet's Biography First Line: Light roused us from the depths of our separate longings Last Line: Past the horizon, writing you out of existence. Subject(s): Activity; Baths & Bathing; Loss; Love - Complaints; Memory; Exercise | |||
Light roused us from the depths of our separate longings and while I balanced buckets you laced black sneakers for your morning run on the cliff, wrapped the red ribbon of shirt around your forehead, stretched stiff calf muscles, then ran off. I could see you jog the beach as I arranged notebooks, pens, on the marble table, then begin the zigzagging goat-path toward the crag overlooking our stone cottage, your red rag still visible against the rough, anaemic marble of the mountain. Remember the undressing, how I slipped off your Nikes, peeled each slick of cotton, then unknotted the sweatband and dipped that tatter into the icy water, sponge pressed between your breasts, your legs, the tenderness between us before the sex turned sour?— before your six miles became a more-than-tacit withdrawal, like sleep, or headphoned jazz, so I'd watch you crest the hill as I worked at the marble table, wrenching lines, syl- lables, the diminishing sweatband a raw wound in the distance, as I revised draft after draft, prodding you past the horizon, writing you out of existence. Used with the permission of BOA Editions, Ltd., 260 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604, http://www,editions.org. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AGENDA AT 74 by HAYDEN CARRUTH SPIRITUAL EXERCISES by MADELINE DEFREES IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX DON'T SIGN ANYTHING by ROBERT CREELEY THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 3. EXERCISE by JOHN ARMSTRONG EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 15. RATHER DEEDS THAN WORDS by PHILIP AYRES TOM TWIST by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER |
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