“Side”
Side (drawing by Diana Barco)
Side
All day I’ve seen your side
in my mind, the smooth slopes
of rib, hip, limb, like
the banks of a river.
All day I’ve strained
towards these banks
with an overflow of self,
that wash of discontent,
too quick, too fretful, to find anything
but what’s next and next and next.
All day I’ve longed to stretch out by some cove
in your warm torso–
you’re so sound in sleep–
to slide between joint, bone, flesh,
to subside.
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Here’s a poem just for today, which is a bit of a tired day. It’s not the one I’m posting for dVerse Open Link Night – I opted for funny for the Open Link – Gauguin’s Stomach Grumbles, as I think people can always use a laugh.The above, Side, has been slightly revised from my book of poems Going on Somewhere. The book/poem by Karin Gustafson (me), the drawing is by Diana Barco; Diana also illustrated the book.
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ManicDDaily 
May 15, 2012 at 3:29 pm
oh, this is tasty. i love the movement and the warmth.
May 15, 2012 at 4:28 pm
why not…i like this one much…i like the geometry you know..and finding that cove to rest in…smiles…and i have had those busy days as well…they wear on you…
May 15, 2012 at 4:58 pm
The topography of the beloved is always dear, magical, able to bring peace, and your poem evokes that sense of closeness and intimacy that is surely a thing to be treasured.
May 15, 2012 at 9:23 pm
I love this… I have days where I just long to spoon with someone. Sigh…
May 16, 2012 at 7:02 am
Oh yeah these days are quite familiar also, as they come and go. All one wants to to stretch out with another.
May 16, 2012 at 7:07 am
Pst, you’d probably like the Gauguin poem, the one I put up for OLN as it is very rhymy. k.
May 16, 2012 at 7:07 am
ps -Yours was super funny. k.
May 16, 2012 at 10:48 am
i cannot put it better than hedgewitch but she sure is correct in every sense… nice work! 😀
May 16, 2012 at 10:51 am
Thanks, Aaron.