Julene T. Weaver
Sexual Revolution
In the mirror
it is the body she remembers
sexy as S and I and N
it is the fucking she remembers
full fledged
hot and bothered
screaming orgasms
S and I and N
that will never
come again
In the mirror
the body is constrained
now scared
there is no more
free love no more
S and I and N
free as the ‘60s
love revolution and
this is s and a and d
that reflects back
in her mirror
This body of love
that remembers
twisting hips
Amazon breasts
easy as S and I and N
into stray palms
The price paid
twofold in this new
world after the free
reign fledged orgasms
we remember changed
world condoms
AIDS all a sign of
the future that came
Julene Tripp Weaver is the author of No Father Can Save Her (Plain View Press) and the chapbook An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues (Finishing Line Press). A former New Yorker, Julene now lives in Seattle where she is a psychotherapist.
@trippweavepoet | www.julenetrippweaver.com
This poem was previously published in Gertrude 14 and in Ghost Town Poetry Anthology, Volume 2, 2004 – 2014.