2.22.2023

the dear, dear body in our hands

Are we a-
sexual now, touching 
each other tenderly, more 
tenderly than a mother, 
the dear, dear 
body in our hands? You touch me 
as if each cell of you remembers 
where I live. I live 
here and here, everywhere 
you touch moves, as if a breath 
is passing over baby hairs. 
Your hand passing 
down my back, cupping 
my buttocks, I can't remember 
in between, 
my body is lost in your 
making, my mind 
asking, what is this quick 
parting of dead cells, this 
brushing away 
of small planets? 
You are too naked 
to take in, like the whole 
David, O 
 
nipple of light 
on my tongue. 
 
[Toi Derricotte {1941- } ‘Sex in old age’, from “i”]

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