Letter to my body after having consensual sex
Dear ocean,
I wanted you small
but then you would not be the ocean.
I scorned the way
your waves tripped
along the shore.
O clumsy tide,
touch the earth
and pull some back
for safekeeping.
A friend tells me
we know
nothing about
the depths.
How have we been together so long
and i am just now learning
how deep your currents run?
It doesn’t matter
that I didn’t
know him.
He asked for furious waters,
asked to hear you moan;
so you showed him how loud
the sea becomes in a storm.
How amazing
that you only show
your bluest whirlpools
to those that ask.
Bei Jie Si is a poet and artist in Austin, Texas. She currently attends the University of Texas with plans to major in psychology and minor in Mandarin Chinese. She was a member of the UT Spitshine slam poetry team that went to CUPSI from 2015-2017, and will coach the 2018 team. She is currently Co-President of Sptishine. In 2016, Bei Jie Si also competed in the Rustbelt Poetry Slam. She was a Write Bloody chapbook contest finalist in 2017 and has been published in Monstering Magazine and Apricity Magazine.