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Cloudless


Your city smells like ginger.

That bed we slept in smelled

like hay. If I go far enough

away, there is a place

where no one knows what it’s like

to eat blueberries

straight off the bush.

The scent of your skin

will fade from my memory

like an old sachet

whose bouquet has become

impossible to decipher.


©Leslie Joseph 2007

It’s Quantum, Baby

Gorgeous lips positioned
at a precise and momentary angle
imbue this awkward coupling
with the air of something grand.

The intersection of hand and knee
appears to mimic a timeless clasp
but the unfamiliar dart
of tongue in ear notifies
all senses involved that
these pulsating parts respectively
belong to strangers.

The untarnished frenzy of
first time lovers is the only
honorable offspring this night
will produce.


© Leslie Joseph 2007

The Specimen

I am tremendously
better late than never.
Your sophomoric exploration
of me has been discovered.
This wicked attempt at
colonization, sir, has been
brought to light.

I am not uncharted, not pure.
A braggart’s mission, yours,
but this expanse is rebelling.
I will not be your midnight
exotica, your moonlight bloom
meant only for admiration
and cataloguing.

Can you see me in a glass
case, limbs secured with pins,
parts lovingly labeled
for all to see?
I am not your discovery.


©Leslie Joseph 2007

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