Needing And Wanting...And Settling Poem by Anarda Nashai

What they want

is a dent in their mattress

for a steady keel while they are sleeping

they want to struggle

to figure out what's in the corner

or on the surface of the other

to be able to sniff past

the listerine and to the

marijuana laced breath of the other

they will settle

for foreign hands on their bodies

for other impressions to interpret

their wet or dry dreams

they want to pose with another

whose eye color is a better match

for a their own up-do hair styles...

they will need a human heart

to explain to them their own hearts.



What do I want?

I want to live where I only need

turtle necks...and red wine

and straight lines

I will need to walk with bare hills

and not fret too much

about the snow or water beneath them

and If love so happens

to find me in route

I want to look at him

and feel affection completely

I will not be satisfied to delude

any more or less than this

for the well-planted waves

of my great imagination

...because I no longer bleed

or need to weave stairs of anecdotes

for backyard grills or Christmas dinners

I'll pass on short, tiara-crowned fantasies

and illuminated, but still hidden promises

I will only settle to look back at love

and feel from it what I feel.



-Anarda Nashai

author of School Girl

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