Erin Taylor is a Tulsa based poet who is always somewhere else. She has a chapbook of poems OOOO (Bottlecap Press 2016). More of her work can be found on the web at erintaylor.tumblr.com & she tweets @erinisaway.
2 Poems by Erin Taylor
autobiography
i am most myself
when i am doubletexting
when i am misspelling “please” drunkenly
when i am craving a hand on my inner thigh
the second the airplane takes off
at a little organic farm in the middle of the country
the last place i made love to you
the first place i made love to you
in a crowd of bodies, sweltering
wondering when you will come over & talk to me
waving goodbye to people at airports
having troubles breathing in your bed
flirting with strangers
at two in the afternoon naked in my room alone
losing myself.
formal emails
i could tell you were nervous because you
mistyped “am” like i am trying to tell you
that there are parts of me buried deep
in other people’s memories that i cannot
get back, but i still want to share with you
so they’re going to sound like a jumbled up
rambled sentence floating in & out of your
ears that all sum up how talking to you
was the first time i legitimately smiled
in two weeks.