"Rape Envy" by Kirk Pinho

RAPE ENVY (III)

I wanted to invade

            your body like ants
in the Valley of Horribles:            

            there’s fucking
and then there’s fucking.

There are two reasons
        for saying I’m sorry:            

              one for what I did 
and one for what happened         

              to you

        and then we
understand we’ve forgotten 
the difference.

RAPE ENVY (VIII)

                Let’s pretend for a moment

that I am the smell of your body / and 
    what I find in the clutch of your elbow

             when I’m sober / is oleander

         or a purple tuck of bruise / 
  / or coriander or coitus / O, orgasm

we spent days in the ICU recovering from / O, Adonis,

             Hephaestus,

     by sinews and viscera I am joined.

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