A LOVE NEST

We give up our single beds.
Somewhere in the house,
somebody
is testing your earlobe
with her teeth.

Somebody sweats.

Remember
that accordion
in the upstairs back bathroom.
How it eyed us both
from the bidet.

THE EXERCISE POEM

For IC

Imagine a place from your childhood;
write down three things you can see,
three things you can smell,
three things you can hear.

Imagine a pair of hands;
what are they touching?
Write down three things they taste of.

Imagine you are an object from your mother's childhood.
Imagine you are a suitcase.
Write down three things you feel right now.
Write down three things you will feel later.

Go back and delete any word that rhymes.
Go back and delete any word containing an f.

Now interview everything you've just written.
Render the responses phonetically.
Do not stop writing until I say