She reaches out
for a curl, wraps it
around her finger.
Tell me why
you like Galileo
so much, & I look
up, almost see stars
flickering in her
night-dark eyes.
I tell her
how I understand
his desire
to see something
beautiful more
closely, burrow
my face
in her freckled
neck.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 24, Issue 2.
Despy Boutris’s work has been published in Guernica, Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, AGNI, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Currently, she lives in California and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The West Review.
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