from “On a New Year’s Eve” by June Jordan

from Jordan’s Things I Do in the Dark, 1977

[…]
and even the stars and even the snow and even
the rain
do not amount to much
unless these things submit to some disturbance
some derangement such
as when I yield myself/belonging
to your unmistaken
body

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