Beneath sky's black hood
we float in teal water
each of us a question begging to the other
every inch of skin
begging touch
Your legs around me
begging for more
We float like this
The moment a skeleton
on which we'll build
a home
Charles Jensen
Charles Jensen (he/him) wrote Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres (SFWP, 2024). His most recent collection of poetry is Instructions between Takeoff and Landing (U of Akron Press, 2022). He is the recipient of the 2020 Outwrite Nonfiction Chapbook Award, 2018 Zócalo Poetry Prize, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, the 2007 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award. His poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner. He founded the digital literary magazine Villain Era and hosts The Write Process podcast.
