A Grammar of Want By Lisa Sisler

A Grammar of Want
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He wrote poems inside me
Muscles, nerves contracting,
a slow electric current.
His fingers on the flesh of my letters,
my thighs, sentences he’d form
embracing the chaos held within.
Moans, like questions raised,
amplified among the heat and arch
of my spine.

Each story, twisting upon the other,
setting tissue and sinew aflame.
The ashes of him remain,
slick along my lips.

Bio:  A New Jersey native, Lisa Sisler is the editor of Knocking at the Door: Approaching the Other, a poetry anthology from Write Bloody Books and the author of Creative Writing Workshop, a textbook for beginning writers. Her poetry has appeared in print and online at Connotations Press, Contemporary American Voices, The Writing Disorder, Adanna, among others. She teaches writing at Kean University.

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