| A LOVE STORY by Gloria G. Murray A LOVE STORY we kissed in the dark hallways of the Canarsie projects backs pressed against the concrete wall lips sealed with the grout of lust your tongue swirling under mine your ardent fingers curling like a sculptor around my nipples under the summer silkO love, you were my first… and my lastin-between the years of slaps, screams splashes of hate like paint against the peeling walls of our suburban home quelled only by the bodies in remembrance of that feral melding almost five decades ago that roller coaster ride those bursting fireworks… FEBRUARY MAN you are my blizzard man you come to me when storms are brewing, rising over the shores of my lifeyou come to me when winds rage hail snaps against the shutters of my heartyou soothe me with marshmallow words wit that dances little elves at my feetand when the door of the world is shut with snow mounds you open yourswhere a fiery fire crackles and glaciers break FISHERMAN alone in the queen size bed I turn over, touch the empty space your pillow holdsfor a moment half in sleep, floating between this world and the nextI forget you are fishing casting your rod like a mysterious spell into the seaor asleep, zipped in a bag under the stars on a beach with the wind beatingagainst your cap the moon a spotlight on your face the mosquitoes biting your ears About the Author:A member of Poets & Writer’s Inc., Gloria Murray‘s poetry and prose has been published in various literary journals and anthologies such as Grabbing the Apple, The Paterson Review, Third Wednesday, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Xanadu, Oberon, Long Island Quarterly, Ted Kooser’s on-line American Life in Poetry and others. Gloria’s one-act play What are Friends for? was performed off Broadway as well as presented in the Michigan Art of the One-act Anthology, 2007, New Issues Press. She the recipient of the Anna Davidson Rosenberg 2014 1st prize award in Poetica Magazine, as well as 3rd place 2017 Writer’s Digest Poetry Award. |
