<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You ask what I want<\/p>\n
as if we are in a doughnut store,<\/p>\n
as if I could say:\u00a0 two glazed,<\/p>\n
a chocolate old-fashioned,<\/p>\n
or a jelly roll to go.<\/p>\n
Always I am without words.<\/p>\n
I move my mouth, say nothing.<\/p>\n
What is this want?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It’s not like that, I say finally,<\/p>\n
as if I don’t want.<\/p>\n
Yet I do.<\/p>\n
I go away empty,<\/p>\n
the vacuum sucking at me.<\/p>\n
I’m hungry to put voice to this void<\/p>\n
and still the words won’t come….<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I want<\/p>\n
to see the bottoms of your eyes<\/p>\n
looking into mine<\/p>\n
beyond all images<\/p>\n
beyond all history<\/p>\n
beyond all wishes<\/p>\n
beyond all hopes.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I want to feel<\/p>\n
all of your connection to me<\/p>\n
in the tips of your fingers<\/p>\n
in the texture of your mouth<\/p>\n
in the flow of your breath<\/p>\n
in the pulse of your blood.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I want to be with you<\/p>\n
all the way up the mountain<\/p>\n
and all the way down the other side.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I want to touch you<\/p>\n
spirit to spirit<\/p>\n
aura to aura<\/p>\n
just to feel the colors mix and swirl.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If you are with me, I will feel it.<\/p>\n
If you love me, I will feel it.<\/p>\n
If you run away, I will feel that too.<\/p>\n
The body never lies,<\/p>\n
that’s what makes sex so vulnerable.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Don’t you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You ask what I want<\/p>\n
as if we are in a doughnut store,<\/p>\n
as if I could say: two glazed,<\/p>\n
a chocolate old-fashioned,<\/p>\n
or a jelly roll to go.<\/p>\n
Always I am without words.<\/p>\n
I move my mouth, say nothing.<\/p>\n
What is this want?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It’s not like that, I say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/loveandlust\/davidsteinberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}