Sunday, June 1, 2008

Wife

I am trying to see
the third side to the story

all I can think
when she would
fist me
she would get
half an arm’s length
deep


I couldn’t get enough
Kawasaki grease and all

so you can see
why I might be distracted

from the fact that we
are not

everything ersatz

two weeks gone
I find us on edge

of her couch
fleecing smile

about face of
my silenced heart

sit rusting
barely fit speech

when she says she wants
not always
but in this moment

I wait
glean some sweat

grab her by the hair and give in

after
I have worn her
I am all haze
night-morning sleepless

I want to break

open
her skin
feel each muscle
underneath
what it was formed for