John Weiners
Originally published in The Evergreen Review Issue 109 in 2004.
How many loves had I
in young boy's bed,
at Humarock, or Provincetown's
Cape Cod, under sweating summer sun,
after Land's End, before their interruption.
How many loves had I?
in discourse by firelight, after highballs
to records of Marlene Dietrich and Cole Porter,
how many loves had I?
in Swampscott flat, or Beacon Hill house,
Beacon Street garage or Fiedler overpass,
how many loves had I?
How many loves, in Annandale
before payment or threat, in the Public Gardens
or Fifth Avenue park, how many loves--
None, none, none at all.
