The Only Reason the Audience Finds the  
      Erotic Poet's Work So Uncomfortable  

                                         by CLS Sandoval

 
is because she thought of all of our fantasies 
before we did—

that and the twelve-year-old boy
sitting in the second row,

wide-eyed.   
 
(for poet Alexis Rhone Fancher) 


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"The Only Reason the Audience Finds the Erotic Poet's Work So Uncomfortable" was first published in weirderary in 2016.

CLS Sandoval, PhD (she/her) is a pushcart nominated writer and communication professor with accolades in film, academia, and creative writing who speaks, signs, acts, publishes, sings, performs, writes, paints, teaches and rarely relaxes. She has presented over 50 times at communication conferences, published 15 academic articles, two academic books, three full-length literary collections: God Bless Paul, Soup Stories: A Reconstructed Memoir, and Writing Our Love Story, and three chapbooks: The Way We Were, Tumbleweed: Against All Odds, and The Villain Wore a Hero’s Face. She is raising her daughter and dog with her husband in Alhambra, CA.