from Turn Left at the Dead Dog:
On the checkerboard of their desire
Beverly and Omar watched their steps
They have loved one another one day more than forever.
Omar, Jamaican
came to the shipyard and found work as a welder.
He is black, burned by the years of kindred propane
and a bitter wife.
Beverly is the American Venus.
She washes her hands, even between meals.
The moment she hears Omar coming upstairs,
the phone call’s over.
He walks by the boss’s office
where Beverly rules.
He won’t even look at her
while she keeps her fingers poised over the keyboard.
For a moment forgetting
what the invoice says.
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