You’ve been coding in that cave of yours for days, and: Wonder-ferried to Beşiktaş

You've been coding in that cave of yours for days, and: Wonder-ferried to Beşiktaş Christie Borely (bio) You've been coding in that cave of yours for days You emerge saying you're a caveman now I wonder what this primal man is like in bedI think of ways to make you gruntI plan positions that will shock you in the dark cast dancing shadows into low blue light The next day I straddle you in your office chairIt's not made for rockingBut it stands up to a little shake Later, in the aftermath of a good day's work and a good day's play,We lie on yoga mats watching cows graze in the darkThrough cold Swiss-made glass We bend our lives into anecdotesAnd you collect data points about meI collect too The pieces of light that refract off you when you smile End Page 176 Wonder-ferried to Beşiktaş no more than 20 minutes— 1200 seconds a memory sense takes just 2 5 for a quick analysis 25 or more if I happen to find a loop to you feeling less indulgent today but I've spent the ride before surrounded by strangers in coats with tea and simit old women's chatting back in your flat wrapped up under you see, here I am again, spending seconds on you as I said, today, I'm less obliging? greedy? and the sight of a steamer pulls me back much further to a time of wood and wind filling sail, even ruddy oar at rival speeds. floating grain down the ox ford at the center of the world Sound and sweep of gull wing so like ancestral 'saur perfected soar on wind that built this mirror city I wonder how the wind haschanged the taste and whip of it fierce and fast now to match thrum of civilization modern life in the breath between us that will blow us apart before it settles stayed blue and true 300 notions wide inspiring flight in polymaths like you End Page 177 Christie Borely christie borely comes from the land of the hummingbird, Trinidad and Tobago. Nectar-seeking and in full colour, she celebrates life through the art and craft of writing. Copyright © 2024 University of North Dakota