flesh [I thought a lot about your body,]
I thought a lot about your body, my body,
what it is to lie in bed together and sleep.
To the shores of silent-dark and back
we went each night, like that wasn’t a mystery.
Our physicality grew more hulking.
More and more I had to squint at the mirror
to recognize my face, that cracked window.
Credit
From Skeletons by Deborah Landau. Copyright © 2023 by Deborah Landau. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of Copper Canyon Press.
Author
Deborah Landau
Deborah Landau grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and earned a BA from Stanford University. She went on to receive an MA in English from Columbia University and a PhD in English and American literature from Brown University, where she was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow.
Date Published
04/04/2023