June 12, 2016
Us and blindfold
in delicious dark. Done deaf
by bassline, scouting heat
with bladed tongues. Breath
a scream spun in reverse
and Lord don’t we holler
wet down each other’s
necks. Rapture and rupture,
every sizzled bead
of black sweat
spit swollen out
our skin. O God
make naked a flaw
with climax steeping
our glotted throats.
Give name the hollow
wont to fill fat
with blood. Sing us
a lie: our hearts
fed thick with thrust
and rhythm, sacred
fist made habit
the gasp and surrender
of living this soft.
Pulse by Eric Tran | Sandalwood Poetry Reed Diffuser
$15.00Price
Eric Tran is a poet and most recently the author of Mouth, Sugar, and
Smoke, which won the Oregon Book Award and was a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award.
