Captivity by Toi Derricotte

Author:Toi Derricotte [Derricotte, Toi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780822978510
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Squeaky Bed

At your mother's house we lie

stiff in our bed as paper dolls.

Soon you snore and the crickets burst

through the window with squeaky horns.

She is old and toothless,

when we make love we

rock in the arms of a

new mother, she will not hear.

The crickets never sleep. All night

they want it.

Love is more real

than fear. Soon we will

give ourselves over to the noise.

The Good Old Dog

I will lay down my silk robe

beside me near the old bed,

for the good old dog;

she loves the feel

of it under her, and she will

push it and pull it, knead

and scrape until she has it right;

then she'll drop down,

heavy, silver and black in the moonlight,

on it and a couple of pillows (not

bothering the cat who has taken over

her real bed)

and breathe out deeply.

Gorgeously fat,

her face

like the face of a seal.

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