#nicholas goodly

[savings-club]

[danielriddlerodriguez]

WET MAN

—Nicholas Goodly

I will make my own man

I will stitch together a coat of drunk minks

until he my man is drunk in his collar

and wearing a sharp biting harness my man

is drunk with his nose in his collar

I want to wear gold-stick appendages

Partner my man lend me your saber-tooth legs

your big sleeve we should have children

we should dress these children in this single pair

of fishnets we will see to it these fishnets

kick their legs in a Georgia river

my man will take a handful of my nipple

he my man will cheers to cocoa butter

all ten fingers will see to it

and the dandelion oil he my man

my man has ten seeing fingers

his ten dandelion fingers

will see to my nipple

and nothing is embarrassing

he will snore like a man

who is asleep and happy

if I want to wear him I wake him

I will let myself in as he yawns

river my main man

rivers are drooling tongues

the South is wet sweet vinegar

river let us spell each other’s names

with the least amount of letters

just like that and nothing else until a poem

I wish I had a blind tongue

I wish I was stupid and naive in the mouth

I wish I had a blind tongue

[savings-club]

lipsticks by nicholas goodly

[litbowl]

From Nicholas Goodly's book, Black Swim. (Copper Canyon, 2022).

[ailelie]

To You Who Fit the Description by Nicholas Goodly

My strongest hand, the bond

between us, there is no losing it. Tomorrow

will happen, innocent as a white word. I'm not

scared of anything anymore. We are heavy

and imaginary, an unspoken train. Tomorrow

barrels out from the relentless concrete ground.

We forget our fate and build ourselves a heaven.

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That last line! So many ships...

[redshift-13]

My strongest hand, the bond between us, there is no losing it.

—Nicholas Goodly, from Black Swim