Be Dramatic in Something Gauzey
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With
candles burning and orange juice, fresh squeezed, beside me, I licked the juice
from my fingers. She brought oranges with her the first time. That’s when I
started looking for them. The harder I looked, the fuller I became, and the
juicier they were.
I have
begun to read voraciously to know just what to say at the right time. When I
sleep at night, I think about what I read, and when I make love, I think about
what I will tell her. I think about ideas. They’ll run over my lips and I’ll
flick them out with my tongue. I think about stories that I’ll whisper, and
when my breathing gets heavier, I’ll think about poems I’ll yell, and when he
kisses me on the back, I’ll remember things I forgot, and the excitement will
roll me over, and I’ll forget where I was. It never gets crowded in our
bedroom. There is always room for all of us, and when things start getting
confusing, I disappear for a while, float up to the ceiling, take a slow ride
on the fan and re-enter when I’m fresh again, and we all think it is for the
first time.
The poems
that get digested get sent out in the mail, and when the rejections come, she
listens, and he wipes away the tears, and I weave them into pillow cases, the
kind that crinkle to the rhythm of love, and there are more poems popping from
the toaster. Someone forgot to butter the bread. I can’t remember if her hair
is long or short, dark or blond. Sometimes, it’s one or the other, but those
aren’t the things that matter. It’s her voice that matters—the one I try to
mimic, till I learn it by heart—the one I dream and it becomes hybrid. The Garden Girls Letters and Memoir
