James Michael Brock wrote "The Drunken Comet",
from which I take a few lines, with some modifications:
Celestial Bodies
I was in Stanford,
California, with my lover, in
perfect December-cold air. She
breathed like a black hole, her
inhalations pulling my
body light-years into hers. The stars
became a sheet of light, illuminating
like the sun, blinding. Time
swirled around us for either
minutes or eons, as we ascended
to expel supernovas. The shine of
her bare legs, thighs quivering, became
deeper than mechanics and more pervasive
than plasma; strangely Taoist.
Only later, she would spit me out, condensed
and sudden. Her little-explored
center was not accustomed to menaces
of getting a good fuck, and
"Fucking gays!"
* * *
A comet trails
stars, highlighting
a numb matrix of
letters and numbers. In
some eyes, we failed to
achieve any magnitude; the insistence
of sectarians surrounding us with
their stepladders of importance.
But the brilliance of our fusion
shone as well as any young star, which
revealed in its destruction the most
simple elements.
--jennifer crystal chien