Yesterday's Kiss (among the first poems I published)

I had recently been telling a friend how much my poetry has changed since I started in 1999. Most of those older ones are hidden away now in an archives section of my site, partly because they don't represent my style so much anymore and partly because I simply would have way too many poems on the site, otherwise. (I do, still :-) At any rate, this is one, pulled out of the archives file.




Yesterday's Kiss

Our bodies play
hide and seek.
Your tongue probes
my mouth, searching
for yesterday's kiss.

You know
how to ask for sex
in six different languages.
I wish you were as
proficient in love.

When you leave,
I bury my head
in your pillow,
dare not breathe,
lest your scent
take me captive again.

Later, your voice crawls out
of my answering machine
'I want you'
Using that red dress
you bought me,
I smother your pleas.

Pris Campbell
(c)2001

Art: Jenni by International artist Janet Butler
copyrighted and used on my site with permission.

This one's on my site with music. Go to Yesterday's Kiss at Poetic Inspirations.


Published in Blackmail Press, fall 2002