Storm Caught
What my not turning away says.
You removing
your soaked shirt
in the doorway.
My being made
unprepared by curve
& dip. That a deluge
begins in sun.
That if rain triangulated
your stomach,
glazed your ilium, from where I
froze, I could not
attest Yes
or No. Understand
my staring as a puddle
engulfing a ship,
my silence the ghost–
ship of that ship,
its drowned quarry.
Drenched from chin to waist,
you wrung
your shirt
then elbowed back in,
almost-blue-
cotton, clinging
to your ribs.
Flower Conroy Punch Drunk Press’s third Featured Woman Poet this August! She is the author of the chapbooks Facts About Snakes & Hearts; The Awful Suicidal Swans; and Escape to Nowhere. Her poetry has appeared in American Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle and other journals. She is the current Poet Laureate of Key West.
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