{"id":2101,"date":"2023-12-19T20:50:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T20:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wessmongojolley.com\/home\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2023-12-19T20:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T20:57:28","slug":"incarnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wessmongojolley.com\/home\/2023\/12\/19\/incarnation\/","title":{"rendered":"Incarnation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I dance better than I speak.<\/p>\n

My still lips are more eloquent
     than my polite conversation.<\/p>\n

     In the dark movie theater
     our knees touch skin
     to skin on a summer day.<\/p>\n

     Asleep in fall rain
     our hands find each other
     atop the covers.<\/p>\n

     Without you on a winter
     street my arms instinctively
     reach out for a stranger.<\/p>\n

     I miss you with my body
     muscles straining against
     the weight I carry.<\/p>\n

I miss you with my body
     baking in the noontime heat attracting
     predators who dare not draw too near.<\/p>\n

I miss you with my body
     blood moving through flesh
     hair shimmering in sunlight.<\/p>\n

     You ask Do you love me
     and I reply with cartwheels
     in freshly mown grass.<\/p>\n

     Yes but do you love me
     you say and I slap
     my chest until it blooms.<\/p>\n

     Yes but do you…
     and you stop before I bite off
     a digit and offer it to you.<\/p>\n

   (First published in Tree House Arts, 2018 )<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Incarnation I dance better than I speak. My still lips are more eloquent     than my polite conversation.      In the dark movie theater     our knees touch skin     to skin on a summer day.      Asleep in fall rain     our hands find each other     atop the covers.     … <\/p>\n

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