Four Poems by Teri Vela (Poetry ’24)

One Month Later

Last night I was with D from high school and we were at a cabin / some place in the woods with lots of little living quarters / connected by pathways / D wanted sex / infatuation / I took her back to my cabin / locked the door / she sat on the dormroom bed with her back against the wall / femme is my type she said / MILFs / I just like pussy / what can I say / now her pale stomach exposed / her animal weakness / narrow and long / like an otter / I reached my palm across her skin / she’d fuck but not kiss / I kept it secret from my boyfriend / D calls me later in the day / I’m riding in a jeep full of people / the phone rings to a sun bleached car stereo / my friends matter so much / my circle