Her words slide
across the page
like a lap dance
and grind against
the very base of you.
She writes
like a runaway
without options;
uses what God gave
and what men take.
She digs on the sweat
and the panting
and the smoke
and the rush of blood
to the head
from the whiskey
she pours down your throat,
and you open wide.
She knows
she’s an addiction
and winks
at the weakness
of you,
reduces you to words
you read over
and over again.
Danny Earl Simmons is an Oregonian and a proud graduate of Corvallis High School. He has loved living in the Mid-Willamette Valley for over 30 years. He is a friend of the Linn-Benton Community College Poetry Club and pops in when his work schedule allows. He works for Knife River and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Albany Civic Theater.
