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| ***BIO*** Helen R. Peterson, from Canterbury Connecticut, writes poetry and fiction and is coeditor of The Waterhouse Review. Melons and Memory, her first full length book of poetry, was published in early December from Little Red Tree Press. Her work has appeared in over 100 publications, both nationally and abroad, and has in the past year read at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge. |
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| Sapiosexual |
| by Helen R. Peterson |
| Call to me in German, in French, quote philosophers and literary novels, and I will melt, my brain massaged by the vocabulary that sparks your synapses, it blinds the eye to the mundane. The ardor of intellect inspires fervor to thrust against occipital, parietal, and zygomatic bones. When you tell me that home is where my heart beats I imagine myself, chin rested on your head, breath against my neck as your hands find the path down my sternum expanding the boundaries down through ilium ischium and coccyx. The anatomy of my heart is a blueprint shaded in reds and blues that swells against my ribcage vertebrae that lifts with a gasp to catch the words that attempt to define love no language can describe, no physiognomy can hold as they drip from your mouth. |
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| April 2012 |
| 137 |