Sometimes my appetite
scrolls back to the days
where I never worried
about greasy pleasures
dripping in sugared condiments,
and I want to be back at the Paris Diner
with you at 2:00 a.m., high from every urge.
The Paris Diner was not in Paris.
Paris was not in our vocabulary,
it was only a dive in Flatbush
that we stumbled into on nights
when everything was satiated
by a yearning for fries and ketchup and whipped cream
that dripped over those curved fountain glasses.
Between our heated flesh and furtive kisses,
we sipped something thick and creamy,
and our simple lives flowed through a paper straw.
Laurie Kuntz has published two poetry collections (The Moon Over My Mother’s House, Finishing Line Press and Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press), and three chapbooks (Talking Me Off The Roof, Kelsay Books; Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press; and Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press). Simple Gestures won the Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Contest, and Women at the Onsen won the Blue Light Press Chapbook Contest. Her sixth poetry book, That Infinite Roar, will be published by Gyroscope Press at the end of 2023. She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net Prize. Her work has been published in Gyroscope Review, Roanoke Review, Third Wednesday, One Art, Sheila-Na-Gig, and many other literary journals. She currently resides in Florida, where everyday is a political poem waiting to be written. Visit her at: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1.
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