She undresses in a rectangle of starlight like the unfolding of lost papyri. Even the willow in the backyard has an attack of genuflections. Her skin contains certain sequences that dissolve at the mere suggestion that darkness has weight. She likes the way he turns a radio knob— delicately, like a safecracker who has sandpapered his fingertips.
Artwork
Intimacy #2 2020
4" x 3.5"
Mixed media
Toti M. O'Brien
Poem
Delicately
from The Flying Garcias, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993
Richard Garcia
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