“Spy,” by Noah Stetzer (Poetry ’14)

“Spy,” a poem by poetry alum Noah Stetzer, recently appeared in Waxwing. Read an excerpt below:

Spy

This is the love poem for the boys I knew
in seventh grade who I watched close enough
to measure the exact amount of wet
on their slightly open lips — close enough
to count eyelashes as they took secret
looks at Playboy magazines I smuggled
into school just so I could watch them peek
at what we were all supposed to look at…

Read the rest of “Spy” (and another work by Stetzer) here: http://waxwingmag.org/items/issue21/25_Stetzer-Spy.php