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Minerva

from Sputnik by Lee Foust

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A former lover's email recalls memory of sexual frustration and wisdom gained.

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Minerva


Space is time is space is
time and time is erased in
my mind

because you and I
were always out of sync
I think, lost in ourselves

—silences punctuated
with poetry: William Carlos Williams,
Ezra and Emily, Henry Miller,

a temple to Minerva in Rome
where I always thought of you.
This minute, now, pen in hand

professing my unbridled love
for your hair, your freckles:
why does an erection always remind me of you?


We did it too, didn't we?
in your attic room, in you
and your conscience,

that dorm room.
A student asked me yesterday
how to say, in verse, “I swiped him in

to the mensa” and I said, she did
that for me too—you—came home
and found you lurking

Lazurus-like
in this cool tomb, Minerva's ruin.



9/04/2009
Rome

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from Sputnik, released March 11, 2016

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Lee Foust Naples, Italy

Lee Foust is an author and performer from Oakland, California who has lived in Italy since the mid-1990s. He teaches literature and creative writing courses for US universities abroad and is the father of one. Lee is the author of Sojourner, an anthology of stories and poems about place, Poison and Antidote, 9 Bohemian tales of San Francisco, and three novels: Inbetween, Fake Novel, and Here Lies. ... more

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