Friday, October 25, 2024

Breast feeding aug 22, 2012

  

she proposes to do a story

 on breastfeeding

I can't get the image out of my head

trying not to look over the meeting table

 fearful I might see her naked there

 with a suckling infant at her chest

 the breasts I see are those breasts

 she sent pictures of

all those months ago

and which I saw for real later

 if only for an instant

as vivid and yet has fleeting as a dream

 the shape, size, fee, lingering form a memory

 I can't shake

 aching to become the infant

 clinging to her

my mouth always hungry

for a taste of more

 I look at everyone else around the table

 just not at her

seeing no shock

 no alarm

no attraction

 and wonder

 does my expression give me away

is she looking in my direction

 for the reaction that

 reverberates through me

 like an earthquake


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