ASPARAGUS AND POSSIBLY CORN AND THEN FOR DESSERT Maggie Ginestra

a woman straightens

her little baby’s curls

with secrets

and my belief in bodies

swims

like light under doors and i don’t

really miss my friends 

 

 

MUTE BUTTON

i’m jerking off this guy by touching a disembodied penis

my touching brings his hand to his own penis it’s a secret

that these two acts are interdependent only we know it

to be incredibly intimate eyes out the window simultaneous

orgasms only then like a porno movie milky green green

tin cup passed between wish after wish after wish after wish after wish after

all the things that water can be

the story’s in every gesture of the curious puppy it’s hard not to

think about the bible stepping in from a blizzard stepping out

of a painting this is me loving you fearing your sadness this way

one sweet potato in each hand slowly turning inside out

whoever’s at the door she’ll be my new friend forever

friends forever whoever friends forever forever