Vol 1 No 1 2007
Hera
The old man likes to sleep next to my back
he likes to sleep curled around
my back his left hand embracing me
cupped around my breast even now in our dotage
he gets tired of the other women
but not of me the first of goddesses
he remembers the way the word Time
enfolds us he says
the other women meant nothing
Alicia Ostriker