Ambidextrous
Let me kiss you with my left lip and my right
open my right labium and the left.
Let my left eye solve quadratic equations
and my right eye parse Picasso.
Let me sign the check upside down with my right hand
rightside up with my left.
Let me read traffic signs blindfolded.
No, just kidding. Let me brake left-footed or right.
Let me track two rabbits to the compost pile
Let me aim left-eyed and shoot right-handed.
Let me watch sunrise and offer tobacco smoke.
Let me offer tobacco smoke at moonrise.
Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09, won a Red Mountain Press Award for Shadow Light. Other books include Jackalope and a memoir, The Turtle’s Beating Heart (Univ. of Nebraska). At Haskell Indian Nations Univ. she founded the creative writing program. She teaches for Baker Univ. and lives on Tsuno Mountain. www.deniselow.net
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