HRT

sex used to be in my poems
and now it’s back again
the dildo made of sunlight
the dildo that unrolls the sun
the camera inside you looking back
tapping and blinking
pretty like a quarry
that counsels the chariot
on which you ride to it
where a silver tent flies pennons
for the tiny mallet
and the tiny stake
the world the mine that consents
the sun that unrolls the sun

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from Issue 1 of Ghost Harmonics

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Jericho Jennifer Nelson is the author of four books of poetry, most recently On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, winner of the Ottoline Prize from Fence. They are also the author of two art history monographs, most recently Lucas Cranach: From German Myth to Reformation. They teach art history at the University of Delaware and live in Philly.