from YUM!
for Renee
57

He's dreaming in pink of a pink crepe niche. He dreams
in pink of
a pink knife itch. He's dreaming in blush of a pink
bulb roar. He
dreams in blush of a hot chest flare.
      She squirms in a pink mesh like a pink trail up
hallowed
skyscrapers into a spasm of night. She squirms in a
pink puddle
pretty nearly undone with a pink exhale lax and low.
She squirms
like a blush huddled on haunches of
strawberry-as-tomato hair.
She squirms like a blush-rash across the chest means
blood must
be pinking through not-sleep's paste.
      He's steaming with pink drills. He steams with
pink mist.
He's steaming as pink swims.
      She swirls in a blush rondeau, or she's swirling
in a blush
of her rounds around the corner of the sun. She swirls
with a
blush-nest balanced on pinkened haunches of her hair:
seeds and
seeds, or seeds. She's swirling with a blush-tongue on
rust
surge, pinking near the surface where nibbles bless
her thighs.
      He streams in pinks and roses and punks and sores
and pranks
and errors and parks and scissors and paths of
lower-lip-petals
bitten. She's squirting his blushes and loops with
pink brushes.

     Lewis LaCook was born in Lorain Ohio on November 5, 1970, making him a Scorpio. At fifteen he joined the Black River Poets, and had his first published poems appear in their review. Leaving the group in his early twenties, he wrote features for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, and the Lorain Journal. He is currently an undergraduate English major at Kent State University.
     His poetry has appeared in  LOST AND FOUND TIMES, WORLD LETTER, POTEPOETTEXT, POTEPOETZINE, WHISKEY ISLAND, LUNA NEGRA, ARIEL, BLACK RIVER REVIEW, THE COVENTRY READER,  etc.
     Lewis is working on a long collaborative e-mail poem called OUTSIDE THE BOTHER OF SUNLIGHT with Sheila E. Murphy and a collective text called UTOPIA which features several authors, among whom are Murphy, Thomas Lowe Taylor, and John Cone.

      Editor of the e-zine IDIOLECT, Lewis lives in Kent, OH.