sing a song of sapphic sirens at sea / tongue tied and twisted/ in superlative soup/'i love you' / a single, salt-laden breath / pressed between sugar-scrubbed lips / stained plum and rouge spin a story/of sailors in slumber / surgical scars against satin sheets / as citrus to scurvy / or salt air to curly hair/safe and swaddled / by sleep softened palms sign a sonnet / of star-crossed lovers in shared silence / navigating a space where sound need not permeate serenade to sleep / the estranged eldest daughter / shrouded with family / build not of blood / but of friendships frankensteined / on backstreet corners / on shared secrets / and safety slip insatiable fingertips/ into stolen scrapbooks/spilling postcards / of sultry smiles/of shared cigars in downtown dive bars / of pride parades and 1930s drag superstars splay centuries of stories across a string of time / unfurled to the air / as a sparrow taking flight Lizzie AN ODE TO THE LOVE STORIES LEFT UNTOLD
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when i tell him i'm sapphic / his eyes are hazy / as a shark's to spliced skin / tongue serpentine / to spit / 'i bet boyfriends love that' / to suffocate the space / with curled fists / and stigma so thick / it slaps a body into silence. when i tell him i'm sapphic / i mean her spit is sugar spun from the sap of sycamore trees / is the giddiness of sherbet / and the squeak of freshly polished sneakers is satin spilling from aphrodite's seabed / like thunderstruck starlight stretching distant mountains / same drowsy impatience as sloths in molasses thick sleep is medusa's fingertips/snaked around lace top stockings / soothing to touch-starved skin / as chapstick to split lips is a sword's sheath / always a single step away / from a cishet man's/scrutiny and the shock of her smile / before the severing. seasonal spit exchange after sam sax
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