Charles Theonia is a poet from Brooklyn, where they are working to externalize their interior femme landscape. They are the author of Which One Is the Bridge (Topside Press, 2015) and Saw Palmettos, an artist book from Container (summer 2018). They co-edit Femmescapes, a magazine of queer and trans affinities with femmeness. Find them at charlestheonia.com
1 poem
by Charles Theonia
SEXTS
you smell like a place
i want to be
.
we lie so still
and close
our skin grows
over us
.
you are good
will you be good?
thinking about
how good you were
.
i lick you around
the plum pit
in my mouth
.
it feels so sweet to measure
you for the harness your boyfriend
will make and to think you have
a quantifiable body
i can fit my hand inside
.
the thrill when you pull me
away from a man
i hadn’t seen glaring
veering towards us
and into a secret alley
where it’s just you
and me and what
we do for each other
.
what’s good
is knowing you’re here