I LET YOU FUCK ME FROM BEHIND, IT GIVES ME TIME TO THINK

Venetian women perform

for their sexy gondoliers

They maintain their figures

They live on oils, they live

resolutely

My current situation matters little

Only the past excites, face down

in the trough, wifelike

Jugular notch

commode brushes

tangled strip of duct tape

Richness scares me

Deficits scare me

My rich deficits provoke me

You kiss the insides

of my wrists, the dog curls

at our feet, she is polite

as in silent

Maya Nordine is a poet from Chicago living in Los Angeles.