1446: Change Is a Demanding Lover, | Elaina M. Ellis
"Change Is a Demanding Lover,"
Elaina M. Ellis
and I don't mean simply that she'll sit on top and ask for
more than you think you can give, although she'll do that.
And you will thrust harder and go longer with her than any
somebody should: when you have to work in the morning,
when the neighbors might wonder, when wives and
husbands are waiting for wayward spouses to come home.
Sweating this much for this many days in a row can't be
healthy, you will think, and you will ask, where is a glass
of unsalted water when I need it? Where is the person I
used to be, and why is the mirror shaking when the piggy
bank is standing still on the dresser? If this isn't an
earthquake then what kind of freak beauty is it, exactly?
And though you will be more thirsty than Noah was before
the flood, you'll find you've forgotten things you once
needed: how to hold on, for example, and how to swallow.
On this day in...
2011: "The Garden" by Jacques Prévet
2010: "Since There Is No Escape" by Sara Teasdale
2009: "For the Dead" by Adrienne Rich
2008: "Beyond Harm" by Sharon Olds
And did you get what/you wanted from this life, even so?/I did./And what did you want?/To call myself beloved, to feel myself/beloved on the earth.
Elaina M. Ellis
and I don't mean simply that she'll sit on top and ask for
more than you think you can give, although she'll do that.
And you will thrust harder and go longer with her than any
somebody should: when you have to work in the morning,
when the neighbors might wonder, when wives and
husbands are waiting for wayward spouses to come home.
Sweating this much for this many days in a row can't be
healthy, you will think, and you will ask, where is a glass
of unsalted water when I need it? Where is the person I
used to be, and why is the mirror shaking when the piggy
bank is standing still on the dresser? If this isn't an
earthquake then what kind of freak beauty is it, exactly?
And though you will be more thirsty than Noah was before
the flood, you'll find you've forgotten things you once
needed: how to hold on, for example, and how to swallow.
On this day in...
2011: "The Garden" by Jacques Prévet
2010: "Since There Is No Escape" by Sara Teasdale
2009: "For the Dead" by Adrienne Rich
2008: "Beyond Harm" by Sharon Olds
And did you get what/you wanted from this life, even so?/I did./And what did you want?/To call myself beloved, to feel myself/beloved on the earth.