Hinge & Sign poems 1968 1993

Author:Heather McHugh [McHugh, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9780819512161
Publisher: Wesleyan
Published: 1994-08-14T18:30:00+00:00

Page 103

Gig at Big Al's

There's a special privacy on stage.

Wearing little, then less, then

nudity's two silver

high-heeled shoes, I have

to dance, and I dance to

myself: the men are posed at tables just below,

importantly equipped with gazes of assessors

and the paycheck's sure

prerogatives—but they are dreams

I've realized, they are the made-up eyes. No one

knows anyone. I pull down dark around the room.

I turn on sex's juke two-step. I set

foot on the spotlight's

isolated space and grease

a hip and lick a leg. With a whip-

lash of gin in the first row, with

a beer can of bucks in the last, anybody can buy

my solitude (this multiple

circumlocution of crotch). But nobody

can touch me; by the law of California,

I can't ''touch myself." So though it's all

complicit, none of it is public—not until

in one side door

on his soft shoes

my lover comes to watch.

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