by Corey Mesler
We were friends.
We drove to Nashville
together
to see Elvis Costello.
We slept at a
friend’s house, she in a
bedroom, and I
took the couch.
All night I thought she
might come to me,
slip her warm
flesh next to mine.
I could not sleep
but I dreamt the sound
of her undressing
through the wall that
separated us.
A soft breeze soughed
through like a kiss.
Corey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published over 20 books of fiction and poetry. His newest novel, The Diminishment of Charlie Cain, is from Livingston Press. He also wrote the screenplay for We Go On, which won The Memphis Film Prize in 2017. With his wife he runs Burke’s Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis.
