by big words cowboy boots tattooed forearms
by a handover my mouthstifling a groan
& by rollercoasters but only that initial drop
that bottoming outI’m a little turned on
by bottoms arms slung around my back
hands fisting hairby Saturn’s ringssunlight
a cautious pinky finger tracing mine by the pink
skinat the venus boneheat
of a neck painted nails a back arched toward me
Despy Boutris is the author of Burials (Bull City Press, 2022). Her writing has been published in Copper Nickel, Guernica, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Agni, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere.