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Honorable Mention
Male Torso
Emusing (Lois P. Jones)

Mari’s hips ripple. Her arms
paint imaginary strokes,
shape the white washed walls.
She conjures your image,
twenty feet tall
shock brown torso,
headless--
arms not quite touching
your sides
hips slightly forward
poised like a confident
cat oh yes...

I wanted that painting--
your stomach, a smooth
plane of cajon, legs cut
at the edge of canvas.
I imagine the small moons
curved below, waist carved
out of palosanto wood
my tongue’s desire
spread into honey.

You
have the gift of endless
wanting, always the lean
of leg to satisfy some country
waiting to insist yourself
to release bone
body into the night.

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