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

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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.