Amateur dykes

_________________Amateur dykes¹

Establishing shot: the dark mirror of your phone dazzling
into a cartful of corn and lemons, papery husks piled

high beneath bright yellow flesh. The sun lazes up
there as if drunk on Bolivian moonshine and altitude,

as we are. Cut to: two women’s palms pressed tightly
together, Lake Titicaca looking on as we laugh at her name.

She winks as a mother would. Week-old underwear, pit-
stained shirts, sturdy shoes. How we had to buy nail

clippers because we were both traveling light, grazing across
the Southern Cone like twin bullets. Close-up: “Mi amor,”

you whisper into my unwashed ear, and it doesn’t strike me
as cheesy, then. POV: Cold water running down our stomachs

in rivulets, your calloused hand rough on the back of my neck.
Long shot: Blue sky above and blue water beyond, your hand

in mine as we walk to the plaza past the cathedral for choclo—
how the sweet kernels stick between our teeth when we open

them. Closing shot: the cordilleras cross themselves as we pass,
beaming____________-our yellow light__________into passersby.

 

 

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¹ Taken from PornMD.com, a site that anonymizes and aggregates porn
____-searches worldwide and displays them in real time. “Amateur dykes.”
____-(n.d.). April 11, 2020 from pornmd.com.