Love Poem: Hidden Woman I
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Written by: Thomas Wells

Hidden Woman I

In your heels
                                                In your lips

                                              Your tight belly
                                             Your pantyhose 

                                               I owned you
                                           and disdained you

                                            I didn’t believe
                                              what I knew

                                           I held you outside
                                            my busy greedy
                                                expanses

                                                  Guilty
                                      I said you were lovely
                                   but I never could be seen
                                                with you

                                      Like a phobic fascist 
                                     I hated you for what
                                                  I did

                                   And never comprehended
                                              my reflex

                                               Instead
                                     in terrorized dreams
                                    I always fled my police