Who came to stop the two men
for they must have stopped
nights ago on an uptown sidewalk
knot of flesh
center of a gawking crowd
One flung his body
on the other muttering murder
struck the curb
the other clung like a lover
Whose red-dark face
arm locked on neck
pavement tearing through cloth
body knotted to body
Not-god pry me apart
Joan Larkin is the author of five books of poems, most recently My Body: New and Selected Poems and the chapbook, Legs Tipped with Small Claws. She also co-founded the independent press Out & Out Books and co-edited a number of groundbreaking poetry anthologies including Amazon Poetry and A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. You can visit her website at www.joanlarkin.com
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