Winter/Spring 2001Volume II Issue I

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Mary Whittemore teaches creative writing at an independent school in Dayton, Ohio.  Her work has been published in several literary journals, including The English Journal and Off the Map. 

 

 

 

 

First

Mary Whittemore

 

you put me
between your hands
and squeezed

we were
squaring off—
opponents

you knew
you had
to open, fall
somewhere
and thrash
sweetly, then

though you did
this first time
I felt as though I
had quickened
curved, destroyed

as though I
had weakened
given you divined letters
sweetened landscape out of bone

 

© 2001 by Mary Whittemore

Also by Mary Whittemore:

Conversation

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Earthly Love I

Earthly Love II