Martha Rhodes

Dammit!

She was
In the
Which then
Had died
Her nose
Told her
"Between us
It's Dead"
Was she
Crazy? Felt.
But he
She wanted
Any way,
All positions,
In out,
Hard deep,
Sex was
All they
Could then.
Now what?
Now what?
He escapes
He sleeps
Rolls over
Honey! Honey!
Wake up.
Come on.
Don't deny
Us this.
It's me!
All yours!
Don't you
Dare kill
Us, ok?
Between us
Us two
Anything wrong?
You mad?
We've always
Fixed things
Our past
Got better
So why now, huh?

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Martha Rhodes is the author of two poetry collections: Perfect Disappearance (winner of the 2000 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press) and At the Gate (Provincetown Arts Press, 1995). Her poems have appeared individually in many journals including Agni, Fence, Marlboro Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly. She teaches at The Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and New School University. She is a Founding Editor and the Director of Four Way Books. contents | previous