Shopping for Beds on a Snowy Evening
We
take off our boots
to
try on the bed
at
Sears. It's a little too
public
with those teenagers
climbing
the Stair Masters over there,
that
large family arguing
in
Spanish among the refrigerators,
this
sales clerk in his pimples
hovering
above our headboard,
spouting
dimensions, promotions, double
entendres.
We lie here in
traffic,
love and a frank
mischief
in your eyes. "We'll
take
it," you tell him and clamp
your
mouth on my mouth
and
we start to roll around as
a
hundred humming appliances
praise
the king
size
bed as big as a boat
you
just bought for us
for
a thousand dollars, the sales clerk
swimming
tactfully away on his clipboard
to
ring us up.
Paul
Hostovsky's poems appear widely
online and in print and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily,
and The Writer’s Almanac. He has two poetry chapbooks, Bird in the Hand (Grayson Books,2006)
and Dusk Outside the Braille Press (Riverstone
Press, 2006). He works in