The Poetry Project

s/m or heaving erotics

Sahar Khraibani & Mae Howard

there’s something like radial radial energy
pain radiating, i am learning to describe
in great detail radiates up radiates down dull
sharp all these different qualifiers of
something erotic, not rubble, not stone
there’s submission a suspension between life
and death between radiates up and down in
and out of lost in a loop of say it is so, so it is
haptics, an experience of touch by applying
force an experience of radiation, a spreading
out spreading thin, a chaining together, and
spreads spreads there’s submission, there’s

/

heaving hues of ticking
movement imperceptible to the bare eye
i brace
for stiffness when mobility is fluid
posturing erotics thru the form of
navigating the borders of
nutrients and sustenance of
the not yet ripe nectarine bites like an apple
refusing the soft fleshliness of its expected form

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