Joanna Migdal
Cento 3*

I say yes to everything.
That's how the other day, mercifully helped by alcohol, I had half an hour that was totally erotic.
Passion had locked us together.
The little damp room of the seaweed smell.
Our clothes half-opened...we weren’t wearing much, a divine July was ablaze.
A day of dense sunlight heavy with odors of love...
The alchemy of scent and smoke and rivulets of sweat.
Your body quailed at my stroke.
When you came, you were like red wine and honey and the taste of you burned my mouth with
its sweetness.

And yes. I said yes. I will. Yes.

*Sources in order of appearance: Mark Strand, C.P. Cavafy, Maxine Kunin, Charlotte Mew, C.P.Cavafy, Raymond Carver, Ron Vazzano, DH Lawrence, Amy Lowell, James Joyce