Poem-A-Day: Prague by Khadijah Queen

Prague by Khadijah Queen     Yes as thievery, except if saved for a fantasy in which I in a backless dress encounter   you on a typical balcony overlooking Vltava, gripping the latticework, metal, a barrier to leaping   into an esoteric night, fixed and ornate enough, like my penchant for the infinite within the singular, encounter you   as tributary, serpentine, the heat of your fingers on my spine, my head turning as you bend to catch the yes   I'd held latent, a mine you trigger with your tongue, neither of us mean to stop exploding.       Copyright © 2013 by Khadijah Queen. Used with permission of the author.   About This Poem "I made a fiction from a fantasy to enter through the truth of language. The filmic seduction scene made of place, of body and object coalesce in imagined action, contrasting with a heightened sense of desirable possibility, or possible memory."    --Khadijah Queen Most Recent Book by Queen Black Peculiar (Noemi Press, 2011)   Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.   July 8, 2013 Khadijah Queen's second and most recent collection of poems is Black Peculiar (Noemi Press, 2011). Her writing has also appeared in a number of anthologies, including Eleven Eleven, Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (University of Arizona, 2009) and Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin, 2010). Related Poems Credo by Matthew Rohrer Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] by Marilyn Hacker The Love-Hat Relationship by Aaron Belz   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.

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