my breasts were
ships-in-bottles.
my eyes spun
like compasses.
in bed, I told him
I felt resurrected.
I asked him
to take me
back to the river,
to those derricks
that spout no oil,
to those rusty bridges,
to the crumbling train trestles.
my heart throbbed
like an egg
as red as the sun.
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