2 POEMS: How To Desire Without A Libido & Equitability

[One first published in 2023 in bodyfluids | Issue 3 ] / Pairing a poem with a poem

Sarah Goodridge’s Beauty Revealed

The kisses on my lips have been torn off me

By an imperial indecision

Not by Madness nor Impulse

Not by God or Fissure of Time

One cannot give love to a person

With a heartbeat

That love will deteriorate with false dream,

Doubt, distance

The debris is in the wind &

I have given away my love to a ghost

And, afterwards,

I slept poorly