I don’t mind sharing a bed with you
and your big pregnant belly
that paddles me
every other time you turn
in your endless search for comfort.
I don’t mind the semicircle bruises
slowly eclipsing my side,
blending me into
the bedsheet sky
with ashy bites of your moon.
Like space, I’ll always be here:
a swaddling backdrop
ringed with orbits,
supporting journeys and returns,
watching closely, from afar,
or not at all, if requested.
Like space, I’ll always be there,
canvasing my kin’s presence,
declumping constellations,
allowing shape,
hanging them in full display
where the world can see.
If you see them,
you see me.
Best of the Net nominee, Rich Glinnen, has had his poetry featured on Rich Vos’s and Bonnie McFarlane’s podcast My Wife Hates Me, and is a mainstay at the Nuyorican Poets Café. His work can be read in various print and online journals, as well as on his Tumblr and Instagram pages. He currently has two cats, two kids, and one wife.
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