You Make Love Like the Last Snow Leopard by Paige Taggart

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 1, 2014   You Make Love Like the Last Snow Leopard   Paige Taggart

You make love like the last snow leopard. Time hunts your shadows. Your grooves dip a real x of an arc. I love your shadow. It’s performance on the wall. Your white hair flocked. It’s old age that makes you kill for food. You bring a long blank to bed in, the weight draws out. You need someone with skill for the excursion. Ride through the reservoir of sour peaches. Your name meanders through the grass. Tall people are in the way. I crowd surf to get to you. You spill me into the flood. Water rushes out your sides. You make a mystery of playing political love. I could kill for you. I’d bring you an eagle stuffed with finches. It’s pouch growing large and groaning in your palm. A cliff of umbrellas and memory shaping your every move.            Copyright © 2014 by Paige Taggart. Used with permission of the author. About this Poem   “I would like to shock the body out of itself to occupy the other side of ‘sense’ to a place where we can indulge in primal instincts. If only we could negotiate time like an animal then maybe our memories would not haunt us, and we could attend to love with less depleted ambitions. In the course of writing this poem I was intersecting with my friend Elaine Kahn’s poems and this was a response. I hoped to deaden the body that I was currently occupying so that my mind could be stretched across a landscape that includes more vulnerability. This poem is how I think an animal might love.”   —Paige Taggart   Paige Taggart is the author of Want For Lion (Trembling Pillow Press, 2014). She is a jeweler and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Most Recent Book by Taggart   Want For Lion (Trembling Pillow Press, 2014) "Blue" by May Swenson "Kinky" by Denise Duhamel "A Sequence" by Leslie Scalapino Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. 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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038