Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again.
Loping Through The Fields Of Abandon
by Tess Lecuyer
Kiss me slick as mud,
long as death,
salty and deep,
a bog
to sting and swallow.
Love inhales roses.
Kiss me like the tide
kisses the beach.
Cover me
in small lapping waves.
Cupid is a sucking footstep.
Eat me again
and again each time
discover
I grow back.
Kiss me
like a frog
kisses a fly.
Originally published in the chapbook Loping Through The Fields Of Abandon published by Kew Gardens Press in 1995
Tess Lecuyer is one of Albany NY's "Albany Poets" who started the now robust poetry scene on New York's sleepy capital city in the 1980s. She has been writing poetry and reading out at open mics in the Albany NY area ever since.
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