radiance and eternal youth are
the purest of qualities in a woman. i see you soaking
up every hour as it comes. carry me
beside you in a handbag, dogmark
my praise in your history books.
i beg you to whisper taboos as i lay
down at your feet, drinking up all you
share of your studies. call me down
beneath the storm. let me recite you
like a war story, and kiss you brighter
under ceremonious fanfare. give us netflix original coming-of-age hits
where for once it is us, main characters, energized
by histories of each other,
by whispers in the fresher
airs of gods almighty and
repeating every word
that spills from our tongues. your amber-tinted gaze warms a hypothermic home and
bathes it in hymns. a dimly lit little room finds itself radiant between our lips. when we
venture on across the
starless sky, i promise to
preserve you in amber, to
refine your extant fossil.
the purest of qualities in a woman. i see you soaking
up every hour as it comes. carry me
beside you in a handbag, dogmark
my praise in your history books.
i beg you to whisper taboos as i lay
down at your feet, drinking up all you
share of your studies. call me down
beneath the storm. let me recite you
like a war story, and kiss you brighter
under ceremonious fanfare. give us netflix original coming-of-age hits
where for once it is us, main characters, energized
by histories of each other,
by whispers in the fresher
airs of gods almighty and
repeating every word
that spills from our tongues. your amber-tinted gaze warms a hypothermic home and
bathes it in hymns. a dimly lit little room finds itself radiant between our lips. when we
venture on across the
starless sky, i promise to
preserve you in amber, to
refine your extant fossil.
Magi Sumpter knows a lot more about women than they do world history. Their first chapbook, "LITTLE ROOMS WITH BAD LIGHTING," is forthcoming with Ghost City Press in Summer 2021. You can find them or their literary magazine on Twitter @MagiSumpter and @SouthchildLit, where they simp over beautiful women and beautiful words, respectively.