Poem-A-Day: Whom You Love by Joseph O. Legaspi

Whom You Love by Joseph O. Legaspi     "Tell me whom you love, and I'll tell you  who you are." -- Creole Proverb The man whose throat blossoms with spicy chocolates  Tempers my ways of flurrying  Is my inner recesses surfacing  Paints the bedroom blue because he wants to carry me to the skies  Pear eater in the orchard  Possesses Whitmanesque urge & urgency  Boo Bear, the room turns orchestral  Crooked grin of ice cream persuasion  When I speak he bursts into seeds & religion  Poetry housed in a harmonica  Line dances with his awkward flair  Rare steaks, onion rings, Maker's on the rocks  Once-a-boy pilfering grenadine  Nebraska, Nebraska, Nebraska  Wicked at the door of happiness  At a longed-for distance remains sharply crystalline  Fragments, but by day's end assembled into joint narrative  Does not make me who I am, entirely  Heart like a fig, sliced  Peonies in a clear round vase, singing  A wisp, a gasp, sonorous stutter  Tuning fork deep in my belly, which is also a bell  Evening where there is no church but fire  Sparks, particles, chrysalis into memory  Moth, pod of enormous pleasure, fluttering about on a train  He knows I don't need saving & rescues me anyhow  Our often-misunderstood kind of love is dangerous  Darling, fill my cup; the bird has come to roost Copyright © 2013 by Joseph O. Legaspi. Used with permission of the author. About this Poem:   "Simply, unabashedly, this poem is inspired by, dedicated to, and about my beloved, the Dolly to my Lucinda, my husband."  Joseph O. Legaspi Poetry by Legaspi Imago   Poem-A-Day launched in 2006 and features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. April 11, 2013 Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press, 2007) and the forthcoming chapbook, Subways (Thrush Press, 2013). He is a co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization serving Asian American poetry. He lives in Queens, NY and works at Columbia University. Related Poems syntax by Maureen N. McLane The Hug by Thom Gunn The Next Table by C.P. Cavafy

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