POEM: HOW DID YOU THINK OF THAT?

photo by Alex Lear

 

HOW DID YOU THINK OF THAT?

 

every day i wear a new body & fervently pray

via my mother tongue for a fertile mind, i am rejuvenated

by the imaginative capacity to live beyond legislated boundaries

& i am blessed with the magnanimity of baby fingers on both hands

non-judgmental naiveté enables me to freshly finger

the personal rawness of my every intimate emotion

 

i am clad solely in the serenity of a hurricane's eye & limited only by

the holiness of death--the only reality that seemingly never dies

powered by the vibrant blue magic of our secular/sacred music

contextualized within the expansive blackness of explosive sunlight

i am propelled by forces and feelings deep as the red velocity

of shuddering sex uncontrollable as gut clutching conjugal climax

making my penis scream the semen of me spurting a million sperm

each seeking to pierce the egg of creative experiences

 

—kalamu ya salaam