Speaking As An Engine
you explain summer concentrated you
a rasping of noise between limbs
like water your surface contracting
my mouth could be a bridge
with silence as the cables
to make tracks
the human remains
up or down
my arms bruised by your breathing
…..
This poem is from the chapbook Saccades by Paul Long (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/saccades-by-paul-long/
Paul Long lives and teaches in Baltimore, MD. His poems have appeared in Rhizome, Poetry New York, First Intensity, American Letters & Commentary, Fence, and the Sonoma Review. His collection, A Piece of Wood Drawn from Memory, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Current projects include a collection of linked poems and letters about P.T. Barnum, focusing on his days at the famed American Museum in New York City, and a lyrical sequence about the virgin huntress Artemis, and her brief encounter with the fabled hunter Actaeon.
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