MORNING WOOD

by Alexis Rhone Fancher

“Touch it,” he says.

My lips graze the tip.

His penis tastes 

like sleep.

In his

hips’ 

hollow,

between

his pincer

thighs, I nestle.

Open-windowed 

sunlight

climbs the walls,

honeys his dear

face. 

I long to inhabit him.

“Do you think 

of your penis 

as an ‘It’ 

or a ‘He’?”

“Neither,” he says.

“I think of it as ‘Me’.”

* * * * *"

"Morning Wood" was first published in KYSO Flash Literary Journal (2014).

L.A. poet Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry, Verse Daily, Plume, The 

American Journal of Poetry, Rattle, Hobart, Diode, Nashville Review, Wide Awake, Poets of Los 

Angeles, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She’s the author of 5 poetry collections; How I 

Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen (2014), State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies (2015), Enter 

Here (2017), Junkie Wife (2018), and The Dead Kid Poems (2019). EROTIC, New & Selected, 

publishes in 2020 from New York Quarterly. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net 

nominee, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly. www.alexisrhonefancher.com