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From the "Poems I Could Not Write" EP. Taken from her collection Warring & Whoring: Memoirpoems by Wendy Joan Knox published 1986. Knox did the book design, and all drawings and photographs. Yes, They Are Love Poems ... was written February 13th, 1985.
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Yes, They Are Love Poems ...
For days when I think
only of touching your lips : Earth
begins at these feet, rises
up through the bones. Deep
feelings spread out from
the clenched heart, the old
moan sounded
before men's dawn. Teenage summers,
I moved toward the heat of metal and cushions,
gearshift & gas pedal forgotten, brake & radio
on. Lips on lips, areas possessed
that have since become
common ground. Torn asunder,
the pink veil of charity & red of lust
resume in a new world. Habit
cloaks women forced by destiny
to huddle by new fires, not
entirely alone. Dark
speaks your name.
I nightmare tornadoes & the last man,
15 years ago
who loved me with equal's gain. He
carries my child & leads the other by the hand. Man,
touch the values of the sexes
with a gentle tongue. I seem
a plaster vixen, but tremble,
wanting your skin on my
dream alone ...
-Wendy Joan Knox
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