Live Nude Poems

Post Mastectomy Shoppe On Brand Boulevard in a suburb of Angels is a corset shop a lingerie store Inside you’ll find along with sexy bras a full array of breast prostheses I visit the shop with my friend Alexis after her mastectomy as she recovers The breast forms have nipples made of plastic Alexis tries one on behind a curtain The form fits neatly into the pocket of a wire-free bra beneath her blouse The owner steps inside to assist Alexis who’s sobbing as she fastens the hooks into eyes The owner says Don’t cry or I’ll start crying While Alexis swipes her card for bras and plastic we noticed nipple labels in the case below peony and rosewood-tinged areolae similar to wreaths and other stickers Alexis pastes on backs of Christmas envelopes After a while Alexis decides her new breast forms protrude like ping pong balls She drives to Nordstrom and purchases some more says the new ones are homey like squis...

Runaway Blues Does Momma know I jump rope behind trees? she hunts for me she’s got the whip she wants to kick me in the hip but I slip ’n slide to neighbor’s gate if I’m not too late I’ll hide and seek She is moaning her eyes rolling like dice I switchback trail Spirograph through deer uphill under sycamores like G.I. Jill I shimmy the chimney incinerator see View Master slides of houses below I hear her shrill, her Gumby legs splayed  Barbie Doll wig unnaturally askew The pool is powder  a Kool-Aid blue  lemon bush abuzz with creepy crawlers I stay away until it’s cool as marbles Then in obscurity I boomerang stand on balcony see her wax lips   she speaks & spells Ephesians under solitary spot her mirthful mood afloat in magic 8-ball I tinker toy through basement she doesn’t know I’m here lock the doorknob to my bedroom  now she’s jigsawing a puzzle If I hear her bobby pin the keyhole ...