August 2013 ~ Helen Hagemann

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Poem for the Day: Three Love Poems

First Seduction The bedroom was twin share for the night, white laced, candles in candelabras, something out of Madame Bovary. The covers were tight, close to our necks the aroma of bodies, invisible. In passing you said, 'withdrawal' and I thought of money from the bank. We began that rib fingering thing that comes with love, you caging the soft weight...

Poem for the Day: My Red Buzz-Box

My Red Buzz-Box On the first night, I sat in both front seats. A robin ready to wander the linear road. I drove out under a cloud-ring of sky and with a sigh unleashed Emmy-Lou Harris on the console. Passing motorists heard my song, and inhaled at the power beneath my feet. Unloosed and headlong, I surged into back streets, matching anything with overdrive. I took...