And So I Do, And So I Do

Ray Koffink

Artist Statement: Title references the last line of Dalton Day’s poem “Dinosaurs Smelled Magnolias.”

After Dalton Day pg. 195 (05/04/2021)

Blood let to flood through seams of corset ribbon, and hidden are the waves of your hands.

Leaking through to my ribs like God must have held Adam.

Soil and sand between his skin manifest a glass body to burn and there lies my sin: between bed sheets.

And my hands, your hair is as black as ash yet lit like tobacco on Father’s lips, a liquid smoke in my lungs like flood, like run and river song,

just us, on and on and on.