Counting Bodies
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Bare
Can you make love to me without us being in love?
Can you strip the skin off my bones to deepen the kisses on a soul you’ve
never seen before?
Slow and steady,
Learn to hold me as if I’ll break out of your hands.
Can you make love to me without us being in love?
Send sunrays
Like Sundays
Through my body,
Like melanin magic.
Can your caress make me change colors?
Lie there while I blend myself into you.
It’s as if two bodies become one,
As if you were gone
And didn’t exist anymore,
As if I caught my tongue between your teeth,
And to be free
You have to repeat my name to me.
Can we shift identities?
Can we become each other?
Distort this reality.
Disorient me.
I just want to exist in the assumption for a second,
The assumption that I can fuck you into staying.
Can you make sure the sky doesn’t fall on me?
Can you make love to me without loving me?
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About the Book
This is a compilation of passionately written poetry that emotionally and vulnerably challenges love, life, mental health, and problems plaguing relationships in the technological era such as unfaithfulness, broken hearts, unrequited love, trauma and open wounds so intimately through clear communication that anyone can find a piece of themselves within its pages. The author hoped to skip pass the color of the roses and get to the raw points as authentically as she could in a millennial-like tone hoping to foster open discussions on topics that are usually glossed over.
About the Author
About the author:
Born on April 21st Fedana is a Haitian- Canadian poet residing in Toronto, Ontario. She began writing as a means of self-expression, drawing inspiration from the late great poet Maya Angelou, along with Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange and more powerful African American literary figures. Fedana has a way of getting people to tap into different spaces of themselves through relatability. She puts a lot of herself in her writing as well as a lot of the encounters that she’s had the opportunity to make. Her hobbies include performing spoken word poetry, connecting with nature, singing offkey at the top of her lungs, and reading as many books as she can cram into a year.