Plato’s Right
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Yesterday I came back home again—another work trip. Gold, you kept the homefires burning. Yearning? There was somewhile I was gone, but it’s the endof Sunday dinner, full with cousins cometo visit, so we just exchange a thumbs-up, sweet kiss, warm hug. You used to bendme backwards over couches in your ardor.With kids and in-laws, aches and pains, it’s harderto dance that dance. I miss it, but I’m gladwe had it, jeweled years alone and madabout each other’s bodies. Plato’s right.Lust leads us on. Remember, gem, that night,our first, you asked me why we’re here?I answered: divine love. That’s also why we’re queer. [End Page 165]
Lisa L. Moore is Archibald A. Hill Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, where she serves as director of the LGBTQ Studies Program. She is the author or editor of five books, including Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, which won the Lambda Literary Award. She also published the poetry chapbook 24 Hours of Men (Dancing Girl Press, 2018).
