Anima, Animus
- Anima, Animus
As we were making love, I looked at my hands cupping your chin and they were your hands, with light hair curling past the knuckle and a wide silver ring. How could that be? I slid my teeth over your lower lip and pulled away to see that your hand on my thigh was my hand and just as I was wondering if I should bring it up— if you’d mind having such long fingers with dabs of pink nail polish at the ends— you lifted your hand, which was my hand, and said, “Look!” We laughed and turned into ourselves again. [End Page 28]
Denise Duhamel is the author, most recently, of Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005), and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is a professor at Florida International University, in Miami.
