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What is Required in the Forever
by Clare L. Martin
(04/29/09)
I am full of love this night. Listening
to Hejira Joni Mitchell
and sipping whiskey: thank you.
I just had a taste
tonight for whiskey
and vinyl and love.
We have been keeping
odd hours and making love
in the wee hours -- like three AM sex,
hard love, a litany of dirty,
dirty -- as dirty as you can get
with a partner that knows
your curves and exits.
20+ years and we still excite each other.
The miracle is in the imagination.
The heart of the other is a wide,
expansive and fertile ground.
I give myself over.
I fight to connect, to reside in the real
throbbing-beat of his love.
I will be in the moment
of his movements.
I will be in the movement
of his lips, hips, tongue, and fingers.
With each love-experience
we are connected tighter.
Bless this union.
Bless the raw love;
the ebullient flame
that ignites this,
our passion.
©2009 by Clare L. Martin
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Clare L. Martin is a poet/mother/wife. Clare’s creative writing has appeared in
Inch, Eclectica Magazine, Wheelhouse Magazine, and
The Blue Fifth Review, among others. Her work has been nominated
for Best of the Net and Best New Poets.
She has work forthcoming in Press 1 and The Dead Mule.
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