“Skin to skin,
Lips to lips,
Stomach to stomach,
Sex to sex,
Fill me so that I know
I exist.
I am present.
I am here.
I love you as I wait to be loved by you.
Thinking of you,
Multiplying into a sea of perfect limbs,
My body
Slipping and sliding
In an ocean of cool porcelain,
So perfect and unattainable.
Take me in your arms.
Make me believe
This is not just a dream.
My pleasure.
My heaven.”
Amber Ehler
A series of illustrations accompanied by “The Issue”, a poem by yours truly written in response to Nina Bouraoui’s novel Avant Les Hommes.