artwork: ralph murre
Why I
Can’t Be Your Lover
by
Susan Tepper
It
was about the long stretch
of
body—
and
rumpled sheets
Bodies
on sheets, mine shorter
on
top of your long body—
the
milk caressing the pitcher
and
traffic and the outside
rushing
past high draped windows
over-stuffed
chair, a dresser,
a
floor lamp bent at the odd angle
~
first published in The Somerville
