Antibody | Krysta Lee Frost

Krysta Lee Frost is a mixed race Filipino American poet who halves her life between the Philippines and the United States. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, The Margins, Berkeley Poetry Review, Hobart, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. ___________________________________What A Pity You Wereyou’re so sexy/sulking red/and readyto beg/sweat and silt/spilling silkuntil you’re sick/you’re so sexywhen i bring it/out of youwhen i throw off/my working clothesand use your hands/to dress me upas a good man/god/you’re so sexy/stretchedlike a smile/and smiling/wider for mesuspiciously/salacious/my symptomaticsenselessly incensed/asymptotejust simmer down/i’m sick ofsudden sullen/slumped/at attentioncan you move/a little closer/can you followmy finger/and follow/the cuewhy don’t we play/fetch/my sycophantmy stray pet/move away before i retchbut remain/reachable/take a raincheckremember recreation/replay/our game againkeep it/respec