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    The American Poetry Review

    TWO POEMS

    May 01, 2020 1 minute
    JESSICA LEE

    In Water

    Your body becomes dangerous
    in water, after you watch

    Memoirs of a Geisha & learn about
    the eel & the cave, knowing

    it’s a metaphor for sex buttaking it literally,

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