by Kristen Sanders
The part where you discover his moves,
the new lover. The part where you are belly-down
and spread. The part where he’s inside you and
inside you. Showing your body how to do it,
to accept. How it doesn’t hurt.
And the slim vibrator keeps turning on inside you.
Don’t push me out when you come, he says.
You’re a good girl, he says. His British accent,
the deep, bossy thrum of him. His patience
as you try and try, and he uses his fingers,
you’re on your back now, you’re splayed open,
his. He is teaching the student something new.
All your lovers, and finally this: someone willing
to reveal the world inside you, its capabilities,
the buzzing feel of being filled. And filled.
Kristin Sanders is the author of Cuntry (Trembling Pillow Press), a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and two poetry chapbooks: Orthorexia (Dancing Girl Press), and This is a map of their watching me, a finalist in the BOAAT Chapbook Competition. Her work has recently been included in Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press) and in the international anthology of prose poetry, Alcatraz (Gazebo Books).