When a Boy Kisses Your Son
by Jonterri Gadson
Remember you used to kiss girls,
how you played boyfriend
and girlfriend with no boys
just your hipless, day-of-the-week
panties pressed together in the top bunk
grinding to shivering warmth,
how it shook you like morning’s first stretch.
JONTERRI GADSON is Debra's daughter. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a 2nd year poet in
the University of Virginia's Creative Writing MFA Program. Her poems have previously appeared in
Torch, Conte, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Assisi, as well as in other journals.
Remember you used to kiss girls,
how you played boyfriend
and girlfriend with no boys
just your hipless, day-of-the-week
panties pressed together in the top bunk
grinding to shivering warmth,
how it shook you like morning’s first stretch.
JONTERRI GADSON is Debra's daughter. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a 2nd year poet in
the University of Virginia's Creative Writing MFA Program. Her poems have previously appeared in
Torch, Conte, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Assisi, as well as in other journals.
