5 Poems About Gay Teenage Sexual Experimentation

5 poems about gay teenage sexual experimentation

marie howe, “practicing,” 1998

ocean vuong, “on earth we’re briefly gorgeous” (excerpt), from night sky with exit wounds, 2014

angie sijun lou, “jessica gives me a chill pill” (excerpt), 2018

danez smith, “seroconversion,” from don’t call us dead, 2017

richard siken, “you are jeff” (excerpt), from crush, 2005

no alcohol in this flask girl this is miso soup

A year in fragments

i. Jenny Xie, from Eye Level: Poems; “Zuihitsu” ii. February 1, 1922, The Diaries of Franz Kafka iii. March 5, 1922, The Diaries of Franz Kafka iv. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing v. Charlotte Brontë  — Jane Eyre vi. John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent vii. Charlotte Brontë  — Jane Eyre viii. Raymond Carver ix. James Baldwin, Just Above My Head// Lea Malot x. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables xi. Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Elizabeth Holland (early November 1865) xii. Natalie Diaz, “Manhattan Is a Lenape Word.” Postcolonial Love Poem

“I thought she was sleeping until I heard her call out from across the room, “Will you bring me a glass of water?” I did. Then in her always-sleepy tone and drawl she said, “Do you remember when you were a little boy and you would ask your mama to bring you a glass of water?” Yeah. “You know how half the time you weren’t even thirsty. You just wanted that hand that was attached to that glass that was attached to that person you just wanted to stay there until you fell asleep.” She took the glass of water that I brought her and just sat it down full on the table next to her. Wow, I thought. What am I gonna do with love like this.”

— One Night from Dito Montiel’s A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints

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