Lately, summer
- Lately, summer
Knowing {I don't know} what is unknown knowable under skinyour tongue's thick fisted vowels truncated actions abstracted rehearsal of moan what lies rootedknotted beneath your tongue's callous muscle psalm & light & light I wantalways knowledge of suns burning always bearing the weight of tongue lightI want your cleanest gestures the dirty consonants of fingersyou can take fear mistaken as unrequited sharp passion & love sudden gangly gasps delight have we forgotten delight [End Page 62]
un-punctured instinct unfurled stamen my mouth when it meets your mouth my pleasure when it meets numbin your mouth I am out I once touched that mouth strokedyour singular lines of fear my pleasure when it meets rain & rain & god it is raining, dear the winds strongthe rain hard the rain again sometimes you are harder still your eyes still still [End Page 63]
Metta Sáma is author of Nocturne Trio (YesYes Bøøks, 2012) and South of Here (New Issues Press, 2005 (published under her legal name)). Her poems, fiction, creative non-fiction, and book reviews have been published or forthcoming in Blackbird, bluestem, Drunken Boat, Esque, hercricle, jubilat, Kweli, The Owls, Pebble Lake Review, Pyrta, Reverie, Sententia, and Vinyl, among others. Sáma is a Visiting Assistant Professor of the MFA Program at Louisiana State University.
