I want you to undress me
like a stranger again,
tugging at my jeans
to see if I will let you
and I did, lifting up
in an anything goes kind of way
because anything did
and you pulled down
so that everything landed
all in one, determined
like the expression on your face
of wanting nothing but me
and me wanting nothing but
the moment despite all it hid.
~ Loukia M. Janavaras
Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Loukia M. Janavaras currently resides in Athens, Greece. Her poem White was published in J.D. Vine publications The Creative Writer in 2008 and in 2010 she received an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest 79th Annual Writing Competition for The Neighbor in the Memoirs/Personal Essay category.
Photography (thumbnail) by Aiez Mirza.