Movie

By Eileen Myles Eileen Myles

You’re like

a little fruit

you’re like

a moon I want

to hold

I said lemon slope

about your

hip

because it’s one

of my words

about you

I whispered

in bed

this smoothing

the fruit &

then alone

with my book

but writing

in it the pages

wagging

against my knuckles

in the

light like a

sail.

Eileen Myles, “Movie” from Sorry, Tree. Copyright © 2007 by Eileen Myles. Reprinted by permission of Wave Books.

Source: Sorry Tree (Wave Books, 2007)

Biography

Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1949, was educated in Catholic schools, graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 1971, and moved to New York City in 1974 to be a poet. She gave her first reading at CBGB's, and then gravitated to St. Mark's church where she studied with Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley and Bill Zavatsky. She has published more than a dozen volumes of poetry and fiction including Not . . .

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