You never thought there would be multiple people sharing our bed
Infusing their energy
Their experiences
Sexually, seductively, sensually
Sonia, Countee, Langston and many many more. Gender didn’t matter because we moved through them all, giving each one a moment’s meditation for their words: on love, on sex, on healing, on God, on family, on blackness
Our vibrations real and surreal as we read together
we menage, entangling the rhythm of the black poets
heartbeat, breath. heartbeat, breath
infusing our sacred space with the memories of us