Frozen Beauty by Lexa Hillyer

Author:Lexa Hillyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

A LIGHT IN THE DARK

BY KATHERINE MALLOY

We’re kissing in the closet of night, and oh,

it comes to me in pieces, as my eyes get used

to the dark:

your hair, your hands.

The doorknob glows,

moonish and bright, like the spark I first confused

for a satellite, up there in the Milky Way.

Your thumb moves over my palm, like in some dream

where your hands are shaping me from formless clay.

I lick your lips. You taste like fresh whipped cream.

My sisters and I always fought for the cherry,

so we could try to tie its stem in a knot

using only our tongues.

I barely utter, but my body

says you are the one I’m lit for, and not

to stop.

When we touch it’s as though we are just learning how.

We are breath, we are heat, we are now—now—now.

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