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thesis: Rock the Boat is a song about strapping, if for no other reason than 
by m. mick powell


my own selfish association:                 femme dyke combing their room in cerulean light / 
                    
                                                                    Aphrodite’s sage / a song played just for me / 

                                                                    smooth synthesizer / silicone slick & slayed across 

                                                                    their waist / thirst for synthetic champagne / sweat

                                                                    & strawberry for the wet / for the way / they stroked

                                                                    / before sliding inside / this is not a synonym / or 

                                                                    unsubstantiated sapphic lust / it’s a matter of fact /

                                                                    the phallic absence        :             the catamaran of femmes

                                                                    pushing their pelvic bones together        :           ocean agape

                                                                    & scissored against an amethyst sky, tender as the morning 

                                                                    ushered out the moon—this lover / my love / our acrobatics 

                                                                    suspending us / above fields of yarrow & honeysuckle /

                                                                    the song of their name / a sweet plea / salacious sacrament 

                                                                    / a swell before softening / saturated / satiated / swimming 

                                                                    & coming closer / the proverbial appetite / an incessant 

                                                                    kaleidoscopic rain /



m. mick powell (she/they) is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbook chronicle the body. Their poems have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize, and appear in Frontier Poetry, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. A professor at the University of Connecticut in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, mick enjoys chasing waterfalls and being in love. Keep up with them at www.mickpowellpoet.com and on IG @mickmakesmagic.art.

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