Two Poems

Buoyancy

What keeps this sentence afloat
like a body in water
is your refusal to stop
until we run out of breath

like two bodies in water
backstroking with the moon
until we run out of breath
once the sun comes up

backstroking with the moon
my fingers on fire
once the sun comes up
an extended foreplay

your fingers on fire
in love with my form
an extended foreplay
holding you

in love with my form
is your refusal to stop
holding me
what keeps this sentence afloat?

Solar Sestina

Sing
to
me
solar-
powered
laptop.

Laptop
sings
powered
to
solar
me.

My
laptop,
solar
singer
to
power,

empowers
me
too.
Laptop
sings
solar:

solar-
powered
songs.
My
lap topples
into

two
solar
laptops,
powers
me
singing

to power
solar. My
laptops sing.  

—Kate Sontag, Ripon, WI

 

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