On Orgasm (a poem)

Did you realize Zan also writes poetry? Here's a sample from her chapbook titled A Dog Named Me.

On Orgasm

My beloved asked

for a poem about orgasm

perhaps thinking my words

would summon memories

of fireworks exploding

or waves lapping shores

or hurricane forces, unleashed

but I think what is needed

is a sonnet to their softness

curving into my back

warm skin praying for me

as I slip into sleep.

Orgasm pulls us

away from our minds

into single points of being

incapable of thought

escaping

for a moment

every troubling thing

until awareness ebbs back

returning us

to where we began.

We need escape.

But what we need even more

is a beloved, like mine

curving warm against our backs

pouring their love

into our souls.

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Suzanne DeWitt Hall (she/they) is the author of the Where True Love Is devotional series, the Living in Hope series of books supporting the loved ones of transgender people, The Language of Bodies (Woodhall Press, 2022), and the Rumplepimple adventures. You can find a full list of her work here: https://amzn.to/3vVPF