Ars Erotica

Not raised in locker rooms,

he sees his first cocks

at the museum,

 

marble hardons a sudden

revelation to him.

At least

 

they look like hardons, he thinks,

feel like hardons later

when he imagines

 

how they feel. This, of course,

is how all art lovers

are born: in private

 

& for private reasons. When

he takes his first

sculpting class,

 

he learns to soften clay

in his hand. When

he closes his eyes,

 

it feels just

like

skin.

Patrick Kindig

Patrick Kindig currently teach in the University Writing Program at Brandeis University. Patrick is the author of the chapbook ‘all the catholic gods’ (Seven Kitchens Press 2019) and the micro-chapbook ‘Dry Spell’ (Porkbelly Press 2016), and my poems have recently appeared in Colorado Review, the Chattahoochee Review, Washington Square Review, Copper Nickel, and other journals.

Contributions by Patrick Kindig