To a Younger Woman

One Who Thinks of Her Body as "Large"

You slander your body
with too much modesty
about your figure. I know

what I want in a woman
(and I know how superior
that sounds) and she looks

very like you. Do not be ashamed
of your curves, they are
the very definition of the female

body, and the female body
is what my male body so craves
that it stays up late at night

swiping at photographs
as if actually touching bodies,
seeking the one body

whose fingers might delicately
swipe my own body
right, right back.