Poetry Wednesday – “The Kiss” by Anne Sexton

Poetry Wednesday – “The Kiss” by Anne Sexton from the anthology intimate kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure, edited by Wendy Maltz

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and one more Cummings

also from erotic poems 72. wild (at our first) beasts uttered human words —our second coming made stones sing like birds— but o the starhushed silence with our third’s

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learning from the best – E. E. Cummings

from the brand-new collection erotic poems, edited by George Firmage, and containing an assortment of Cummings’ erotic drawings. I want to learn to write original, singing, sizzling sex poems, so am reading some of the best. ii. when i have thought of you somewhat too much and am become perfectly and simply Lustful….sense a gradual [...]

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from “On a New Year’s Eve” by June Jordan

from Jordan’s Things I Do in the Dark, 1977 [...] and even the stars and even the snow and even the rain do not amount to much unless these things submit to some disturbance some derangement such as when I yield myself/belonging to your unmistaken body

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Amazon in the land of oranges—Eleanor Lerman

Finally I See Your Skin Eleanor Lerman in Amazon Poetry, 1975 Finally I see your skin so scarred by my use that I can close my eyes and tell you where the constant embrace of my fingers is turned to gold on your stomach, and the press of my legs has turned your thighs to [...]

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Ciscernos “You Like to Give and…”

one of my sister-poets was reading a collection of erotic/love poems by Sandra Ciscernos. I opened it and found this. And another I really loved that was just too long to copy out by hand. I gotta go buy the book now to have it for myself. The Spanish words should have accent marks I’ve [...]

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Sleep

Sappho May you sleep on your tender girlfriend’s breasts

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in case you ever need an epitaph for me

you can always borrow this, from Apuleius’ Apology, written about Sappho: She was a woman of Lesbos too, who wrote lasciviously yet with such grace that she reconciles us to her outrageous speech through the sweetness of her songs.

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