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When I Would Ovulate

I would say: if he were here
i'd swish my hair near
to his ear

and collect his breath in mv
mouth and pour it through my eye
into his sigh

and spread my fringe across
his palm and gloss
my tongue across

his lap

and tap
my fingers on his drum and wrap

my legs around
his arm and mound
my hands into one sound

and sing it loud into his mouth and bring
my belly to his side and wing

my lips
around his cheeks and let my tips

of toes crawl up his hips

and feel
how the peel
of our bodies steal

us from ourselves as we make
a new body - take
a new breath - wake

anew egg.

Kathryn Brown

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