Two Poems by A.J. Huffman

Letting Logic Lie

quietly between us

I hold your secrets

of unfeeling
locked in the ebony sun
of my mind
as you play
at bending the barriers
that hold us in stalemate
waiting
certain I will break
             them
for you

My job is to mirror all you are not

You search me for the expected

what you know is there
finding only saddened serenity
and your surprise
when you realize you pushed
too hard
and
       I
          fell
                into your world
when I looked you in the eye

And swore we had never met

 

 

 

 

Desire

 

is a drop of blood permeating the ocean.

An infusion of color consuming initial point

of contact, slowly spreading in wash

of tendrils.  Temporary is the label

of their touch.  They tickle, tease with soft

hues that distort vision, but quickly grow

weak, dissolve until there is nothing

but the original body, flowing, untainted

by memory.

 

 

 

A.J. Huffman has published seven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses.  Her eighth solo chapbook, Drippings from a Painted Mind, won the 2013 Two Wolves Chapbook Contest.  She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry, fiction, haiku, and photography have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation.  She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.  www.kindofahurricanepress.com