you called me today

i wanted to stuff the pauses between words

like cotton for the pillow talk

we never got to dream on

i wanted to tell you

about my wet dreams

you, rubbing away chalk outlines of lovers past

and writing poems – declarations of our future

together

i wanted to swallow you

get pissy drunk on memories

when our flesh spoke to each other

i wanted you to tell me that you missed me

that you will no longer hide from me

that you have the eraser and the chalk to

write your poems all over me

 

 

∞

April Tia Glasgow is a writer and mother in the Virgin Islands. She is the founder and member of the Callaloo Poets and Artists Collective, representing the BVI at Carifesta X (2008) in Guyana, and is an alum of the inaugural Moko Writers Workshop in 2018. Her poems have been published in anthologies and magazines such as VI Callaloo: Poems from the Caribbean (2007), The Caribbean Writer: Volume 23 (2009) and Where I See the Sun: Contemporary Poetry from the Virgin Islands (2016).