Eileen Myles

I know I'm One

Those were

the two

 deepest

 byes

I ever

 heard

we practically

 barked.

Thanks for

the photograph

you sent,

one on

the phone.

I will

only say

mist for

 sweat

trees for

the limbs,

leaning at

a rest stop,

 wanting

to hold

 you

 from

here.  The

 magnificent

waste of

us: hot

 little

ship, plunging

to the

 bottom

of the

 sea. 

Eileen Myles

 Eileen  MylesEileen Myles books include Skies (2001), on my way (2001), Cool For You (a novel, 2000), School of Fish (1997), Maxfield Parrish (1995), Not Me (1991), and Chelsea Girls (stories, 1994).  In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e)).  She's a frequent contributor to Book Forum, Art in America, The Village Voice, The Nation, The Stranger, Index, and Nest.
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