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Category: Li-Young Lee

My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.The vein in my neckadores you. A swordstands up between my hips,my hidden fleece sends forth its scent of human oil.

passion, poetry

A door jumpsout from shadows,then jumps away. Thisis what I’ve come to find:the back door, unlatched.Tooled by insular wind, itslams and slamswithout meaningto and without meaning.

meaning, poetry

I am that last, thatfinal thing, the bodyin a white sheet listening,

a bruise, bluein the muscle, youimpinge upon me.As bone hugs the ache home, soI’m vexed to love you, your bodythe shape of returns, your hair a torsoof light, your heatI must have, your openingI’d eat, each momentof that soft-finned fruit,inverted fountain in which I don’t see me.

love, passion, poetry

We suffer each other to have each other a while.