LOVER

skin to skin

Way Back

that time I went to Prague on a photography fellowship and demanded my boyfriend Jonathan meet me when it was over so we could fly to Barcelona where we lived like mad youth for weeks in dead summer heat, washed our clothes in the sink, walked for days in all directions, drank gallons of red wine with coca cola (yes) and coffee coffee coffee, ate many greasy salty things, roamed night-wet alleys madly in love, eyes spinning black lace songs, fought, cried, danced, and climbed to the top of the Sagrada Familia feeling the whole time like our gold would never dry, when I took this photo with my real Holga with real film, oh my, we were up so high

Checklist/Paris Pencil

1. She jotted down what she 
2. He couldn't read fast enough
3. The action at the very moment
4. Then there was rue Linné
5. No one remembers the eleventh arrondissement
6. At the tip of the tongue
7. We return to love/invent
8. Savory/chess problems
9. Through micro-vignettes
10. Bread and butter dreams
11. Flight toward windy sky
12. Returned to romance
13. I go with
14. The presence in Paris/old new
15. To astound even the most experienced 
16. Communication seaborne
17. I was being/asked
18. Unfolded on his lap
19. Bookbinder, cobbler, rusty key
20. The world comes to each day
21. Love letters in a dinner jacket
22. Humming
23. We make silver/stories
24. I affirm verities
25. Mazes and totems
26. More more/repeat motif
27. Less concerned with morality
28. Than transcendental fantasy
29. Send a copy to Duchamp
30. The poet has a taste
31. The poet wants to bite the ocean
32. He shoots me
33. Degrees