PEOPLE I HAVE SLEPT WITH

A photograph is just the memory
of light. Even when there’s no such thing
as remembering and there’s only revision.

So too are stars a revision
of what was once just the dark.

Sex isn’t knowing. But it’s vision.
The way a person takes off their pants,
the hop, the sit and tug. No matter;
to find softness in the eye of your lover,
not the cunt, not the mouth of time.

Elysia Lucinda Smith is a full-time record slinging, book selling, bike riding, poet. She also likes to play pool. Her first book, UNRULY was released from BlazeVox on Halloween of 2016. 

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