Adam Fieled (Logan Square, Philadelphia, USA): "To Stacy Blair"

A flaxen beacon in my brain—
how could you be more than
this: an ideal reader lapping
up my obscure literature on
a foreign continent, a fingered
box opened to strange whims,
a space mapping interstellar
distances, overdriven in lust,
overcome. Yet when I sit
and write this out, I see how much
there is of you in me; I don’t
know how it happened, except
that you read yourself into my
body, an ocean of wine, salt.

© Adam Fieled 2009-2026