On Witnessing a Man Flirt with a Woman, and: On Living Anyway, and: Circa 1995
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- On Witnessing a Man Flirt with a Woman, and: On Living Anyway, and: Circa 1995
On Witnessing a Man Flirt with a Woman
todayI heard a beautiful woman laugh: deep, uninhibited.
Surprised, I gaspedthat it came from her.
And she threw her back out breaking her neckwith some long-forgotten glee
As Iknowing neither shame nor beauty do
on an ordinary day alone.
On Living Anyway
everyone says,
“If I were a slave, I’d be aRevolutionary: always fighting always hiding always running away.”If I wereEnslavedI would be the one the master didn’t fuck and the blackmen didn’t neither the mistress couldn’t stand and the housewomen ignored the children always teased and the othersBlack as me resented. [End Page 506]
Circa 1995
the first porn I ever sawwas blonde, brunettenude with shaven climaxesbetween brown fingersof brown handscovering a computer screenI wasn’t supposed to see [End Page 507]
Lhea J. Love is the author of Kings, Niggers & Negroes and two poetry chapbooks. Her work has been published by Four and Twenty, Gettysburg Review, and Drumvoices Revue. Lhea currently resides in Detroit, Michigan, where she edits Literarily:Erotic literary journal.
