French, Paul

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Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal Volume 11 Issue 2 Article 21 January 2012 Surf Paul French Follow this and additional works at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate Recommended Citation French, Paul (2012) "Surf," Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal: Vol. 11: Iss. 2, Article 21. Available at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate/vol11/iss2/21 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). It has been accepted for inclusion in Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal by an authorized editor of The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). For more information, please contact ORB@binghamton.edu. SURF PAUL FRENCH He nuzzles her lobes and makes slender talk. His hand skims lint off her thigh and wheels around to the cleft of puckered fat and presses in, poised claw-like, the fingers biting into cotton pants, into the cush of her, and he lifts her onto the laundromat counter and, sucking her skin, says something muffled in the bubble they've made so I don't hear and she wheezes a shuffling laugh knowing that I'm feet and miles away, twisting the sound of the wad rolling into a plump boat churning waves, when dense sex nudges me, inseminated into memories of beaches, waterparks, wave-pools and the machine-tide where I bobbed and watched people mouth French 72 1French: SurfPublished by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB), 2012each other while their bellied children lapped the pool rims-the mashed murmured padding. He whispers to her over the machine-noise, groping while their children chime around them. One is quiet, watching the clothes. 73 2Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal, Vol. 11, Iss. 2 [2012], Art. 21https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate/vol11/iss2/21

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