Sunday, September 14, 2014

Activists In Autumn Warmth


bottom edge of art by Erin Currier

In the study my husband
watches Tina Turner in
video on the computer’s
flat screen and I wonder where
my own low limbo, sexual mojo 
has gone. No longer
this limber, I sit instead 
out of doors alone, wearing 
no underwear and a grey t-shirt 
embossed with a civil rights 
activist and his wife. The wind 
sweeps softly but doesn’t touch 
the cobwebs at the foot of these 
wrapped metal chairs. The holly plant 
is thinning and needs water
where the dog has eaten away
at its roots.

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