Tuesday, December 9, 2014

For Meena Alexander

For Meena Alexander

I want to own your mouth
And steal your tongue;
To control the words
That lick your wounds.

It’s my language,
It’s yours.
Yours.

We’ll try to possess
It, but we cannot.

I want your mouth on mine
And to dance and burn
In eternal sunshine.

You grasp for straws
All you’d please.
You’ll gasp for me.


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