Very happy to have three of my own included in Tokyo Poetry Journal Vol. 14 Eros.
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White
Tea shirt like a too short dress
occasional exposures of hair
as I walk across the room
stop
You kneel
inhale
Breathe long against me
Put your mouth to me
I lean
Again
I lean
again
Squeeze
Draw me in
Again
This time wide opening with your tongue
Sister Stones
Today I brought her stones,
sister stones
white round found together on the beach
Not the waxy white,
not glassy grey,
but almost opal
Round
Alike
Together
Put into her wet
from my having sucked their salt
Marj
There was nothing in that night
which did not taste like your blood.
I licked the rusty stains from your thighs,
following down trails to that hot slick pool of fresh salt water,
nestled in the cave of all our sorrows.
I made you laugh so wild, so steam gut wild,
as if you too howled at the sunless sky.
I pumped you ‘til white milk mingled
with dark new moon flavours of you blood,
and you laughed and laughed and laughed.
28 May 85
Volume 14: Eros
Eros.
Poetry and translations by Sayaka Asaba (translated by Jordan A. Y. Smith), John Solt, PD Lyons, Illias Tsagas, Davord Griffiths, Daisuke Yakumo, Jes Kalled, Rachel Ferguson, Jacob R. Moses, Jeremy Gadd, C. E. J. Simons, Tim Kahl, Paul Rowland, Debs Max, Greg Snazz, Kevin Carter, Repatriare Perdita, Duncan Whom, Farah Ali, Alison Lubar, Noriko Mizuta (translated by Jordan A. Y. Smith), Ryan Dzelzkalns, Shozo Torii (translated by Taylor Mignon), Samuel Louis Spencer, Sarah Sands Phillips, Ulyses Razo, Alexandra Fossinger, Alex Watson, Srinjay Chakravarti, Edward Levinson, Al Ningen, Yowen Xan, Datiko, Mihiro Ogawa, Jordan A. Y. Smith, Nishalya, Herman Bartelen, Zoria Petkoska Kalajdjieva, Jonathan Pessant, Joy Waller, Michael Ely, Alicia Elkort, Andrew Gebert, Bill Howell, David Chenery, Sorcha Chisholm, Simon Scott, Philippe Burgin, Jeffrey Johnson, Robert Moreau, Mariko Kitakubo,
Kaori Shoji, Jake Adelstein, Elysian, Barbara Summerhawk, Nadia Arioli, Mat Chiappe, Joan Anderson, Tim Exley, Allan Lake, Taylor Mignon, Sergio A. Ortiz Rivera, Ndaba Sibanda,
Marcellus Nealy, John Francis Cross, Tracy Sherman, Robot Bastard, Miracle Jones,
Poetry by Jes Kalled, Brian Wood-Koiwa, Vincent Aimée, Sasha Drozd, Neil Craig Chapman, Debs Max, Rorbert Holbrook, Sanjay Bradford, Ilias Tsagas, May Drew, Herman Bartelen, John Meyer, Marcellus Nealy, Peter Leghorn.
Cover Art by Jes Kalled
