POETRY


Friction by Brian Henry
 
Friction

A night of jackhammer sex in the bathroom

Prefers his boys asleep in leather

When he comes a vein between the eyes

To weep for every pretense toward coupling

The last round of lovers left him raw

All the friction of a space so small

Dawn when it hits splits the sonnet in two




Overture

Her first orgasm seemed a miracle
to her and to the one bent at her crotch
but soon unveiled itself as obstacle
or hurdle: a force, of sorts, to circle and watch.

Like a wary climber, the lover
— the licker, lapper, sucker, fister —
crept to the spot, content to hover
before the big venture, then moved, then moved faster,

much to the lover's — the licked, lapped,
sucked, fisted — pleasure, until the crossing
announced itself in vowels wrapped
soundly around her tongue.
               This overture, like any blessing

or blazon, has raised the temperature of her expectations
somewhere beyond reason and miracle's manifestations.

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