Tonight's Poet Corner: Stitch

Stitch
by Belinda Roddie

Sewed a button on your
belly, tightened skin over skin
like lapel seduction. Kissed the puckered
lips I had made beneath your breasts,
licked the licorice biscuit taste
away from your orifices.

You didn't cry when I fixed you,
re-stuffed you, made you fuller and
brighter and more colorful
in your cheeks, your thighs
squeezing the blanket into a snake
without hissing, sticking glue in
silly places on my spine,
slipping a tongue into my ear
as I snipped and stitched up time.