LOUDSPEAKER:: 'Gay Pole Dancer' poetry by Alan Sugar

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Sep 2

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WUSSY is proud to present poetry by Decatur writer, Alan Sugar.
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Gay Pole Dancer
-- the ascent

Without restraint, both unadorned and bare,
I shed convention, posing unconcealed.
Exposed and so disclosed, I am revealed.
Unclothed, I grow much closer to the air.

I am released, unburdened by despair.
I am a breeze that brushes through the field.
The seed without its shell has much to yield.
The naked stone needs nothing more to wear.

I dare and I defy. I climb and spin.
I am the wings that rise above a tree.
Some covet me, but none can touch my skin.
Once bound for hell, it’s heaven that I see.

There is no ground. There is no gravity.
The hands of God, those sure hands, carry me.

Alan Sugar shares his poetry in Decatur, Georgia where he currently resides. He is also a puppeteer, and he has worked as a special education teacher in the public schools of Atlanta. Currently, Alan works as a writing tutor at Georgia State University, Perimeter College (Clarkston Campus). His work has appeared in Atlanta Review, The Jewish Literary Journal, The Lyric, The Ekphrastic Review, The Awakenings Review, and RFD.

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