A Night in Paris by Rose Mary Boehm

Drawing by Rose Mary Boehm

A Night in Paris

Your chin on my

beehive.

Your hands like the

ends of snake

tails entwined

in the small of

my back.

No need

to pull. I leaned

easily into

your need.

 

The piano yielding

to the sax, which

carried our hunger.

Your legs knew

me when they

nestled against

mine pretending

to dance.

Rose Mary Boehm

A German-born UK national, Rose Mary Boehm lives and works in Lima, Peru. Author of two novels and a full-length poetry collection (TANGENTS) published in 2011 in the UK, her work has been widely published in US poetry reviews as well as some print anthologies. One of her poems was chosen for Diane Lockward’s 'The Crafty Poet'. She won third price in in the 2009 'Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse' (US), was semi-finalist in the 'Naugatuck Poetry Contest' 2012/13 and has been a finalist in several Goodreads poetry contests, winning it twice: in October 2014 and January 2016; a new poetry collection is currently in pre-production for publication in 2016 the US.