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Posts Tagged: seven in bed

Online Feature: Evie Shockley, “love life, with stitches”

—after louise bourgeois’ seven in bed that’s how we are in bed: all body and raw with desire. the self we’ve somehow patched together is revealed, voilà!, as hand- iwork, unhandily done: covers snatched back to expose ungraceful seams. we’re arms, reaching past the one who’s holding us close to touch another, whose flesh, in turn, warms to what it can’t quite grasp. we’re our own foes: januses, half-lost in longing or rank nostalgia for some lover past or yet to come—anyone but the one whose flank is pressed against ours: one mouth tastes the wet lips of yes, now, while our other mouth sighs for an unsoft shoulder, unseeing eyes. Read more…

January 26, 2018 by Anni Liu

Tags: evie shockley, Feature, iambic pentameter, identity, louise bourgeois, love, love life with stitches, online feature, poem, poetry, self, seven in bed, sonnet, Writing

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