Take Care from Flesh Real by Sam Wenc

Imagining the look
from across the maple table
You’ve just read the book
that shows you all beings able
To hold love and hunger,
and simple’s behaviors
challenged by some
You wouldn’t say you came here
to feel fleshy numbness
and hold music cable
I loved all that was here
with all that I was able

In night rain's backsplash on my ankle
Moonlight komorebi, the moon, its rays and
me alone and my changes will take care

Take care

In the lovers' trust
dirt, debris, and dust
a guided hand sweeping
the corners, cracks, and rust

To keep you right down there
Surrounded, nude and bare
All the pain I don’t want for you
I hold it here

The heart muscle is swollen
its beating both new and known
blood traces the body
as a lover's river flows


Take care

• Experimental
• Philadelphia