July 8, 2022

Cobalt dress with lace and spaghetti straps.

Melody Gardot and two pussycats

relaxed, confident, and intellectually stimulated.

I breathed him in. I breathed him out. 

Slow…then hard and fast…

then slow again, tenacious.

The man from the land of water volcanoes,

the ones they learn about in social studies. 

I wonder if he knows about the water

volcano inside of him

or the animal medicine inside of me,

making me lazy.

I inhaled him close to me, then I released him. 

My hair a mess, a nest of sex.