By Nancy Lan-Jy Wang  nansee@ucla.edu
Date: 2 June 1998

It is You I Draw

The human body is an artwork
that is created over and over again.

Your tongue
an impregnated brush drip-dripping 
onto my taut 
natural cotton canvas.
Your upper lip,
a stick of charcoal 
between my fingers,
soft crumbs smeared across my palm,
shiny wet streaks;
and your face
a smooth brown piece of newsprint
I crumple with a shriek.