Fish-filled Nets
for Nathalie Wood

you have changed
you have changed me
with wit, with words

wanted to touch the core, the rim
you have

shaken and shaking with joy

what profound things you’re capable of

what daring girls today
as reckless as can be

I thought you were conservative
you’re one of the worst

what you’d dare do, dare say
on a stage with a mike

strip us bare and more bare
without thought of apology

it was you, some years ago
in the audience

having to withstand poems of you
about a cruise we’d taken

you take us apart, take us places
body wrapped in black jeans
in black top

outfit as tight as a condom
words you wrote and read
as tightly wrapped

emotional still, heart beating still
audience laughing, shocked, thrilled

jaws dropped, eyes popped

unable to believe
you were baring so much
wearing so little

shaving pussy bare in public
legs apart, lifted


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
3:54 p.m. 29.06.08