"Tenderly" [by Angela Sundstrom]

Fuck me now in pale-fire
parking garages, against
U-haul trucks and trellised
fences that tread-mark skin,
against Victorian lampposts
that lull with their flicker,
on grated sidewalks, sideways,
upside down in Ferris wheels in
reverse in the backseat of the
Buick accelerating exponentially
between our thighs, pistoning
upwards in thunderous storm,
against Brownstone stoops
at dusk, in the sun stippled
yard of neighbors at noon,
in Luna Park at midnight,
whitefish sparking the beach,
on the boardwalk slick
like seal skin, in the tides
like Leviathans until dawn.

-- Angela Sundstrom

Comments

[Fred Moramarco]

Any poem beginning "Fuck me now" by a woman is a shoo-in to be selected as a Best American Poem of the year.....

[The Best American Poetry]

I can see why you would say so, Fred, and I thank you for the comment. It is often supposed that male poets and poetry editors are peculiarly susceptible to the charms and devices of female poets who write lustily -- as such poets as Olena Kalytiak Davis, Nin Andrews, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Jennifer L. Knox, Sharon Olds, Kim Addonizio, Cynthia Huntington, Deborah Landau and others have done. But the length of that partial list suggests a different explanation, and I would argue that female sexuality is an area of experience that had not until recently been explored candidly and with frank, sometimes even deliberately crude language -- and that women have taken advantage of the opportunity and given us wonderful erotic poems. I like this one a lot. But -- point of information -- poems from the BAP blog are not eligible for BAP itself unless they also appear in, or are taken from, a magazine. -- DL

[Stephanie Niko]

"against Victorian lampposts"

love it!

[Marissa Despain]

This poem is in the category of "poems I wish I'd written." Awesome!

[Winston McDog]

absolutely beautiful

[Lisa Marie Basile]

Love love love.