WHAT SHE SAID TO HIM ABOUT THE MYTHS THEY FIGURED IN
Reetika Vazirani

So they thought it was us two idly fucking
but I know better what we did
you kneaded hills for the dales
I furnished scintillant rivers for mountains
continents came up between us
masses of knees & elbows
they said ha! that god & that goddess still fucking
Let them talk
We built worlds
we built the little earth
we put Mars in orbit
& that vastness they only dream of
on the other end of their straw periscopes
that vastness
what I saw in your eyes when you licked a raindrop of sweat from        my brow
that endless acreage
I put into galactic orbit
eons partner lover friend of mine
eons beyond the simple world of copulation
love & death & marriage
birth of our fine son & the daughters
I could not drown
You I stopped
my some time enemy my love