“Love” Poems For Kathy Number One

A FIRST POEM TO KATHY

I take turns

in turning you out

or letting your chiding in,

childishly minding you

and dressing you lavishly –

then suddenly undressing you to within

a poppystem-breadth of your nakedness

when you weigh up all mockery as sin

and, mouth to mouth, I am gathered

from my nakedness to your nakedness within.

(from “”Love” Poems For Kathy / Green. Laced. Leaves”)

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