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Kisses and Popsicles Spring Poetry Contest
2007 - Second
Place Winner: Mark Leci
Steam Baths
An old man
Levers himself into
The hot bath
With the slowness Of flowers blooming,
Steam crossing the room childlike and careless,
Coffee perfectly dripping into an empty pot.
And the lowering of his body
Contains the unspilled passion
Of bursting muscle,
Scalding liquid drifting over the wooden counter,
Flowers exploding along winter's dark edge,
The old man screaming
For the muscles to do his bidding,
And a teenage boy
Still as ancient ligament,
His chest suddenly,
Tellingly, flushed.
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