Unbound by Aaron Shurin

Author:Aaron Shurin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightboat Books

I will see him standing, pounded, irresistible. In the dunes of my thick woolen sweater, dropped off along the western edge, panting through the indistinct sand, puncturing the middle of the farthest horizon, arms raised. Through the muscles of aching arms and legs opening on my back to the sea, wrapped in tangled sunlight staring beyond him. What I didn’t think or say fill my mouth, the terrible mysteries of sleep and navigation. We’re best friends ever since ever. I noticed you in class—my full attention—if given the opportunity stammering to encompass love stanzas. Have you smiled?—choreography! Are you wrapped around my waist?—cosmic winds. San Francisco the beauty can take a picture—the air around him. I lay there on the floor, dug into the trenches, throwing down his trousers, the root of bones and mud and blood. I suppose he once lived here, curled into the tails of my nightshirt. He walked past me in his undershorts, an organism. We are the owner of sight and speech. In the gray light west of the Great Highway: not even me. We sat in silence, a blanket covering his lap. If you flew by you’d see these imposters, vapors of tenderness. It could never be contained.

(1993)

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