I remember 17, working weekends, my first real job, girl-boss of Housekeeping, trading soiled cloths for clean. First lover, I met you there. College boy,

a projection screen, the woman herself, invisible vamp, vixen, dominatrix, a cock tease Mommy, nurse with kisses, Band-Aids, chocolate chip cookies therapist with answers, a

grit of silt and sand skin on skin, smell real time, taste, touch messy dishes, an unmade bed. imperfect, mundane another workday, a lawn to