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Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller
​by Brionne Janae

boy on his knees

thighs apart his calf

muscled and hanging

from the block

his foot dangles

the black cock’s limp

in dirty moss

and like moss grown

on the northern side

of the bark

it is telling

on this man

who otherwise

might have passed

he looks upwards

as if at a lover

or perhaps to plead

with his master
 

O master

are you pleased with this body

with its deep african delights

is it not divine

how the light

makes heaven

of my torso—   

why deny me

I know

how you are drawn—come

slide your tongue

down the veins

of my throat come

step out from behind

the canvas come out

you have permission yes

come kiss

my lips

these plump caterpillars entering
​
the chrysalis

Brionne Janae is a California native, teaching artist, and poet living in Boston where she completed an MFA at Emerson College. Brionne was a recipient of the 2016 St. Botoloph Emering Artist award, and is a proud Cave Canem Fellow. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle​, jubilat, Boaat, Plume, Bayou Magazine, The Nashville Review, and Waxwing among others. Brionne’s first manuscript After Jubilee will be published by Boaat Press in the Winter of 2017. 
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​​​Fall 2016, Issue 19
ISSN 2157-8079
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