- The Governor in Love
We snorkel in your depths, we lace like coral— we wait for the paperback. Your arm muscles rope & rhyme,
unsolved collision of flesh. Seagulls soundtrack our imagination, this beach, this canyon cottage
with pinecone lawn, shadow-splotched, greenlit. All we ask is movie sex, waxmelt, math problem,
bubbling highway — this heat. Umbrella my plants, these terra cotta plans, your windscattered genius —
it is fire hazard, feast, the long flight home. [End Page 47]
Amorak Huey, a longtime newspaper editor and reporter, now teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His poems appear in Best American Poetry 2012, Gargoyle, Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, and other journals. Follow him on Twitter: @amorak.