Friday 9 August 2019


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’.”


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"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 ReviewWide 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

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