read these yesterday in the fox chase reading series at ryerss museum:

you know how much your dangly
earring turns me
on the way
it shakes & catches
light tho i'm looking
someplace else i seem
to hear it jingling
out the corner
of my eye so i
have to turn
& look with sweeping
glance along your cheek
taking in your flaring
nostril & your eye
in profile pretending
not to notice
me making me
want to take that
lobe between
my teeth surround it
with my mouth touch it
with the tip of
my tongue then move
my lips lightly along
the hairline down
the side of your neck
till they toy
with your shoulder then roll
forward to your collar-
bone & back
up side of windpipe
to the corner of your jaw
within easy
striking distance of that
lobe again?
6/90


TRADITIONL FAMLY VALUES

god n cntry
mothrhd n appl pi
hom whr hart iz
evr so humbl,no place like hom
man's hom hz castl
place t'hang yr hat
charity bgins at hom
spare rod,spoil child
tall oaks frm lil acorns gro
lil pitchrs hav big ears
childrn shd b seen,nt hrd
silnce goldn
luv blind
womn shd b seen,nt hrd
womn's place in th hom
kitchn n bedrm
barefoot n pregnant
on a pedestal
lady in drawng rm,whor in bed
womn's wrk nevr dn
two cn liv cheap as one
luv me,luv my dog
8/92