The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 2/17/2008)

31-Year-Old Lover

When he takes off his clothes
I think of a stick of butter being unwrapped,
the milky, lubricious smoothness of it
when it's taken from the fridge still hard
the way his body is hard, the high
tight pectorals, the new dimes of the nipples pressed
into his chest, the fanning of the muscles underneath.
I look at his arms, shaped as though a knife
has slid along the curves to carve them out,
deltoids, biceps, triceps, I almost can't believe
that he is human – latissimus dorsi, hip flexors,
gluteals, gastrocnemius – he is so perfectly made.
He stands naked in my bedroom and nothing
has harmed him yet, though he is going
to be harmed. He is going to have a gut one day,
and wiry gray hairs where the soft dark filaments
flow out of him, the cream of his skin is going
to loosen and separate slowly, over a low steady flame
and he has no idea, as I had no idea,
and I am not going to speak of this to him ever,
I am going to let him stretch out on my bed
so I can take the heavy richness of him in
and in, I am going to have it back the only way I can.

Kim Addonizio

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:hi:

RL

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recapturing it through younger lovers :shrug:

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just a thought :P

:D

RL

I'll be in my bunk.

:P

not in the mood x(

:hi:

RL

I love to read women who can write well who can also write about physicality without self-hatred or anger. Don't tell that secret. Time is.

15 years ago!

not. hehe.

More of a psycho maniac string bean sorta fellow.

:thumbsup:

:hi: