Glass: A Journal of Poetry Volume Four Issue Two
Stacia M. Fleegal
Clarification
Am I being entered by a man
or leaving the body of a woman?
This
bed is a bassinet with satin sheets,
and
leads to a back porch with a door
that
waxes brief and wanes eternal.
Always
the porch. Always a hand in
some
kind of motion across my cheek,
which
is a morning glory for either of them.
He
was just here, I know it, my
body
still so warm. I have heard
this
silence before; it is my
hermaphrodite. His face becomes
hers
becomes me naked on a back porch. I
reach
for my clothes in a bassinet, uncover
a bloodstone.