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Category: Richard Siken

how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was anotherappleto slice into pieces.Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon,that meanswe’re inconsolable.Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.These our bodies, possessed by light.Tell me we’ll never get used to it.

love, obsession

I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something’s not right about what I’m doing but I’m still doing it– living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling. The enormity of my desire disgusts me.

desire, disgust, existentialism, life

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.

empty, friendship, love, need, poetry

He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.

What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn’t know it’s dead.

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor…When I say this, it should mean laughter,not poison.

death, laughter

The blond boy in the red trunks is holding your head underwater because he is trying to kill you, and you deserve it, you do, and you know this, and you are ready to die in this swimming pool because you wanted to touch his hands and lips and this means your life is over anyway. You’re in eighth grade. You know these things. You know how to ride a dirt bike, and you know how to do long division, and you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn’t do, because you are weak and hollow and it doesn’t matter anymore.

gay, gay-poetry

There’s a dream in thespace between the hammer and the nail: the dream ofabout-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream, but the nail willtake the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever.

He had green eyes, so I wanted to sleep with him. Green eyes flecked with yellow, dried leaves on the surface of a pool. You could drown in those eyes, I said. The fact of his pulse, the way he pulled his body in, out of shyness or shame or a desire, not to disturb the air around him. Everyone could see the way his muscles worked, the way we look like animals, his skin barely keeping him inside. I wanted to take him home, and rough him up and get my hands inside him, drive my body into his like a crash test car. I wanted to be wanted, and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.

crush, eyes, love, richard-siken

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you.

forgiveness, poetry

Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.

dreams, future, glass, love, write, writer

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here’s the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

cake, future, questions