Jake Skeets
Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of a 92Y Discovery Prize, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Award. He is from the Navajo Nation and teaches at Diné College. Source
Virginity
Clouds in his throat,
six months’ worth.
He bodies into me
half cosmos, half coyote.
We become night
on Bread Springs
road. Shirts off,
jeans halfway
down, parked
by an abandoned
trailer. “No one
lives here,”
he whispers.
We become porch
light curtained
by moth wings,
powdered into ash.
Published:
2018
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2023
Themes:
Love & Relationships
Literary Devices:
Imagery
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
Metaphor
a comparison between two unrelated things through a shared characteristic