I Will Take Anyone to Bed (Poetically Speaking of Course)

I have made love with Pablo Neruda On the heights of Machu Picchu I flashed the tattoo on my thigh And hitched a lowride with Luis Rodriguez I have held Adrian Louis close And danced a wild reservation two-step Until beer cans and disposable diapers Spun around us like stars. I have surrendered to Leonel Rugama’s Burning adolescent heat And caressed Roque Dalton From a luxuriance of bed sheets and red wine. I stayed up all night reading Sherman Alexie, Nine months later, I gave birth to twin poems. This lust is not heterosexual. I devour Nikki Giovanni and Patricia Smith Like Sao Tome chocolate. I have been known to steal away for An afternoon tryst with Julia de Burgos. I wrap Nellie Wong around me like a silk robe. Tonight, I have a date to share a steamy bath With Linda Hogan and Joy Harjo And it’s gonna be gooooood . . .