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  • Memory:Our Kiss Love Song: Poem
  • Reginald Harris (bio)

In the empty roomWe held each other [Illicit] tightlyHis arms dark [? Color?] ringsAround me. He kissed me [Unacceptable]As if drowning, [Unclear image] gulping air. [Redundant]

I breathed [Can't] him in,Took long sips [Word choice] of waterMountain cool [Mixed metaphor] and clear [Cliché]From his mouth, [Delete] nourishment forMy parched skin. [Obscure, possibly obscene] Soft,

His lips were plump [? Cultural? Define]Ripe plums [sp.? Erase] I wished [Correct passive tense]I could [No] nibble on [Not allowed] forever [Cut].It seemed [Weak] to take [Not now] foreverTo get us [Vague] to that room [Unclear referent] –

Now [Tense] forever [Repetitious] is not [Edit] longEnough [Unclear] for this moment [Time sequence obscure] to last. [Wordy,trim] [Unapproved] [End Page 97]

Reginald Harris

Reginald Harris (rmharris2001@hotmail.com), the author of 10 Tongues: Poems, works for the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore, Maryland, as Help Desk and Training Manager. A contributor to the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Literature of the United States, he has received Individual Artist Awards for both Fiction and Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council.

Copyright © 2010 MELUS, The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
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