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Aftermath
by
Tony Barnstone
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"How much do you love me," she'd teased him, "Tell."
He knew enough to count the ways he knows,
how rubbing slick and sticky aloe gel
on shoulders, neck, and down her collar bone
onto her breasts, he felt between his palms
the slender bones divided by the flesh,
the adding in of skin and scent like poems
of memory, oblivion and sex.
He loves her so much he cannot be angry
the day she cracks, and tells him to believe
she has to leave him gaping, leave him hungry,
that it's beyond all choice, she has to leave.
And she does, leaves him alone, leaves him flat,
and he still loves her. How much love is that? |
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Tony
Barnstone is Associate Professor
English at Whittier College, the author
of a book of poetry, Impure
(University Press of Florida, 1999), a
chapbook of poems, Naked Magic
(Mainstreet Rag, 2002), and has edited
and/or translated several books of Chinese
poetry and prose, including Out of
the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry
(Wesleyan University Press, 1993), Laughing
Lost in the Mountains: Selected Poems
of Wang Wei (University Press of New
England, 1991), and The Art of Writing:
Teachings of the Chinese Masters (Shambhala
Publications, Inc., 1996). His forthcoming
books are The
Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor
Books, 2004) and a number of textbooks
for Prentice Hall Publishers. A selection
of his translations, as well as an interview
with Tony Barnstone, are available at
The
Drunken Boat.
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