Ode to Glutinous Love

My sweet is a hungry

mouth below my heart fond

of smoked salmon with capers and

slivers of both livers

for a cleaner love—

her metabolic mmmnmmm’s

are my burbling blubs,

her smallest coo

a billion grubs dancing

in the skillet

frying on the fire

boiling in the oil

grown in the soil

fertilized by the outcome of

all our love-eating.

-Geoffrey Griffard