ORLANDO
June 5, 1990
Her nipples are aspirin
Which I take with water.
The moon melts like butter
in the fog of five a.m.
Morning turns to glasses of red wine
And moans of neighbors fucking.
She holds me and I call her
River, call her Night, kiss her voice:
the sound of rain upon leaves,
footsteps in a spring forest.
Her eyes—radio static
of faraway cities. Her
tongue, the groan of wind
through a cicada shell.
At six she pulls on pink panties
and walks into light.
Kent Fielding – educator, editor, poet, activist – co-founded White Fields Press and the literary renaissance with Ron Whitehead in 1992. Fielding is an Honorary Kentucky Colonel, a BP Teacher of Excellence, an Alaska Teacher of the Year Finalist, 2021 Alaska Speech and Debate Coach of the Year. He has taught in the Marshall Islands, at Jefferson Community College, University of Alaska Southeast, Mt. Edgecumbe, Skagway High School, and at summer institutes in Turkey and Latvia. He is Author of two books of poetry, River Church (Radial Press 2025), Chief Iffuccan, a chapbook, The Revolution is About to Begin, and a broadside “Museums”.
