Taken by Kris Rodammer
(Boston)

Don't call it a comeback

                                                         Uploaded by DecHelmore 

I've been practicing flexibility
 like owning my own breathing
 taking in moments like a gymnast
inhaling life and living it
not just

as a witness
movement without thought

walking on your pores 

and swimming in your blood

you embodied my veins
 like sunshine 

memories of sunsets at a distance 

making love like maniacs

you make the hairs on my arm stand up 

like a cat 

i could never forget 

that 

you were the only one

marking my body
 like highlighter 

on a map

But somehow it turned
you were suddenly
discovering america in my vagina 

marking the clitoris like Columbus

trying to own 

all that
which came before you ...

clapping is to orgasms
 like thanksgiving
for my womanhood

you forget my whole life
is a gift

I've been sailing this ship
for awhile now
playing hide and go seek with the moon
navigating this path like
stars in Orion's belt
flowing deep into the oblivion

trusting nothing
 but my own
existence.