BEKAH STEIMEL // Three Untitled Poems
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Have you ever watched a sunflower track the sun? they move in unison just as lovers do just as I follow you the sunflower has never once turned her face away even during the brightest most blinding part of the day she hangs her head when the sun disappears just as I’ve been staring at the ground for years 2. I speak of you as if you are forever gone kidnapped by Death not whisked away by geography you are the only one the only woman who haunts me while still breathing while still living while still loving and kissing so many lips except mine 3. I’m always waiting for the kicking in to begin you’ve never really felt your blood until you can feel nothing else it’s a ten minute tutorial on the subject of patience from taste to takeoff six hundred seconds separating the pop from the first pulse of pleasure I’m always waiting for the kicking in to begin shuffling around aimlessly counting from one to ten |
Bekah Steimel lives in St. Louis, MO (USA) and is working on a collection of poetry, chronicling one lesbian's struggles with addiction, fidelity, mental illness, and mortality. Her poetry has appeared in publications such as Gloom Cupboard, Gutter Eloquence, Sinister Wisdom, Thirteen Myna Birds, and Verity La.
www.bekahsteimel.com |