Love in an Airport
The cancerous gland. Gone now.
In the restroom at LAX,
I take my tight purple panties off
and hand them to my husband
in the men’s room next door.
He wears them
to keep his catheter from slipping
while we walk to the gate.
For weeks, the bruises will roam,
mar my love’s body
from shoulder
to testicle,
and pool there.
At SFO
the pilot tips his hat.
Still cliché, the bridge, spanning its splendor
on our drive home.
Kimberly Nunes’s poems have been published in The Alembic, Blue Light Press Anthology, Caveat Lector, Mantis, Marin Poetry Center Anthology, The Madison Review, WomenArts Quarterly Journal, and Adelaide Literary Magazine. She has attended numerous writing workshops and studied with Marie Howe, Sharon Olds, Ellen Bass, and many others. Kimberly sits on the board of Four Way Books in New York City. She received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her hobbies include bird-watching, gardening, swimming, golf, and tennis.
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