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oh to be that young again!
to have a body not yet dragged and creased by age
to be as slight and brief of flesh to be a man

without the heaviness it brings

ANAPHORA PENISES

I disagree with you on this
one small point the time you said of penises
when you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all I think

so lonely for love they can’t be alone
they wander the grounds to find each other
they sit arguing the terms of how
their bodies will exist together
how they will survive the knowing of each other

TRANSPLANT

I couldn’t live with what I was becoming

as they bath their sons how they will tell them
the stories of their bodies what soft curves
they’ve built to hide the minor injuries
of marriage which parts have grown slower
which parts of them ache as they lift their boy out