Samantha Majewski
Samantha studied at the University of Limerick as an international student from the USA. She has now returned to her hometown of Gurnee, Illinois and is almost finished her degree in English Writing at North Central College. Her time spent studying in Ireland was brief, however she thoroughly enjoyed her stay here. Her interests include reading, writing and travelling. Amongst her favourite authors are Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen and W.B Yeats.
A Light at Sestus
I set a torch ablaze
for my beloved
so he may be guided,
call it a light ignited by love,
call it my insatiable senses
moisture like hot honey
between my legs.
When he finds me
when he comes
from the sporadic shores,
his body dripping wet
his swimmer’s bearing breaths
deepen at my touch
determined to veil
his exhaustion.
I smell the sweat and salt
in his soaked skin,
it tantalizes my taste,
and my hands slip across
the knots of
his bare vertebrae
stroking each one in
continuous circles:
he makes this journey
every night;
swims across Poseidon’s waters
our billowy bodies
emerge into a single stream.
My shrine,
this bed
his body.
Our love,
my idolatry.
My sacrifices and secrets,
immersed bends and bones,
his athlete’s flexes.
My ceremonial chants,
the rise of his breath.
My worship,
Wanton waves
over his pull,
the impediments broken
to perform our lover’s ritual
to be united in an undulate wake
In enwrapped arms
Intwixt legs.
The winds’ reigns never
blow my light
it burns an inexorable flame
to be melted and poured down
an inexplicable release,
like the Earth’s steaming waters
bursting to rise
higher than Olympus.
My youth across from Abydus;
I his Hero,
Priestess of she born of foam
I lay next to my Leander
Soporific-
in his lolling limbs,
under his crescent lids
a swim of sleep.
Inscriptions on a Desk from 1957
Still names
John Doe was Here
to prove a moment
A pen the only witness
dates and years
faint etches
of phone numbers
(630) 815-9823
Delicate curves of
I <3 You
I Love Kasper
Ashley +Jake=LOVE
Mrs. Shandalu
the bold, abrasive
FUCK YOU!
and accomplished
6/2/67
1/8/97
Finals 1981
4/20/01
(hmm…)
11/14/05
Winter 2011
and then
for good sex call…
(no I want superlative sex)
Stars of David
and Roses
Illustrate
along with some
phallic symbols
and tender nipples
construct
a colloquial
(FUCK THIS SHIT!)
dialogue
on this desk from 1957-
that many students
have the strange
abstruse urge
to write upon.
Still names
John Doe was Here
to prove a moment
A pen the only witness
dates and years
faint etches
of phone numbers
(630) 815-9823
Delicate curves of
I <3 You
I Love Kasper
Ashley +Jake=LOVE
Mrs. Shandalu
the bold, abrasive
FUCK YOU!
and accomplished
6/2/67
1/8/97
Finals 1981
4/20/01
(hmm…)
11/14/05
Winter 2011
and then
for good sex call…
(no I want superlative sex)
Stars of David
and Roses
Illustrate
along with some
phallic symbols
and tender nipples
construct
a colloquial
(FUCK THIS SHIT!)
dialogue
on this desk from 1957-
that many students
have the strange
abstruse urge
to write upon.