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Base Camp

 

 

You asked for someone

To make base camp with

So we could climb mountains

And I had never

Climbed to the third floor

Of the building where I lived

Let alone Kilimanjaro with a man

You offered courage, strength

Songs as slow as molasses sap

Running from a tree in a cup

Joy, rich as dark chocolate [...]

Lugubrious

Last Light of Day (c) 2004 by Sara Fryd

Last light of day warms the heart

Like chili stew warms the ribcage

During the early frosts of December nights.

You’ve left to “find yourself,”

Somewhere else

Though not here.

I am lugubriously left

To find your face

Amongst black and whites or sepia [...]

Lunch On Friday

My eyes focused on the second button

        of your blue and white shirt.

Heart don’t stop, lungs breathe

        legs don’t fail me now.

I want to melt into the space

        behind that button.

So wrap your arms around me

        hold me still

        listen to the rhythm of my breathing.

Hear [...]

Nutrition

We were malnourished

Devouring each other like hungry children

          inhaling snacks

               their first day of school.

You said we had reached our quota

          it was only October.

We laughed so hard we cried.

It hurt too much to separate our bodies.

It hurt too much to keep them together.

I cried every [...]

Smoky Jazz

The wailing sounds of sadness

Of saxophones and whispering guitars

Massage my ears

The right side of my neck

A hand lingers on the inside of my thigh.

 

The small of my back

Longingly remembers the [...]

Someday in Paris

You seduce with the body of a man

          who’d ask a woman to lunch in Paris

Someday…

          when he could afford the first class fare

Denny’s around the corner will have to do for now

And though I’ve known passion with men of experience 

More than once…

Talented older and wiser men

Surely, [...]