Laura Marie Marciano

settlers

i asked if we could go

to the museum on a

saturday and you said

you’d rather go to the park.

this went on for six months

until i fell in love with you because

everyone else stopped calling.

after faking it for hours

our natural history

became a museum

and our bones laid

on display against

an assumed habitat

with bright orange Lego

parts and gum wrappers

in the artificial dirt.

i tried to tell you that most

women preferred being

eaten out to penetration

and that the finger was just

as important as the penis.

you tried to tell me i should

date women, or that i wasn’t

spiritual.

now we don’t tell anything anymore,

our mouths glued shut, our limbs

tacked and shellacked, our heads dangling

under a sign that reads: Settlers, 2012

Laura Marie Marciano (Lola Immaculata) is a multi-media artist who works to integrate visual and relational aesthetics into her writing. Laura has worked both domestically and internationally in poetic memoir, installation and video art in the last year. She performs movement and co-choreographs with the music collective Shadow Lover, holds an MFA from Brooklyn College, teaches the arts to children in the summer, and is a professor in the Core Writing Program at Fairfield University. She is 25 and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

http://marcianowords.blogspot.com/