Cliterature
 
Judy Swann is a starry-eyed bicycle-commuter who lives in upstate New York. Her work has appeared in Lilliput, Thema, Verse Wisconsin, Short, Fast, & Deadly and many other publications, both in print and online.



Judy Swann

Kissing you after your shower

 

I wanted to fasten onto one of those 100

breasts of Diana's to see what marble

was like in the mouth -- hard and shaped

like the Italian bread that looks like pregnant

mummie or an Egyptian cartuche

or the rings of Saturn, something permanent,

something in a muscle, and yet a  hunger

satisfied by rainwater,

its buttery taste on my lover's skin.