My love is like talking

A sand-colored broadside with black text and an illustration of two people kissing enclosed in a black border.

Eleni Sikelianos often writes in an experimental style and this poem is no exception. “My love is like talking” takes us on an imaginative journey where we discover the multitudes the author’s love contains. Sikelianos writes, “My love is / not my enemy & dummy drop / & the longest, yellowest light / He is when it hits the earth / at the longest ankle” and “My love is like talking to think / of the tall geraniums & then the sea.” This broadside was printed in honor of Eleni Sikelianos’s 1999 reading for the Women Poets at Barnard College series. Artist Daisy DeCapite designed the woodcut of two people kissing.

Eleni Sikelianos. “My love is like talking.” New York: Boog Literature, 1999.

The poet's signature at the bottom of the broadside.