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# Recreation
- URL: https://poetry101.love/recreation/
- Published: 2021-02-14T01:08:27.000Z
- Updated: 2021-05-22T00:34:55.000Z
- Description: by Audre Lorde
- Author: Melissa Anderson
- Tags: Audre Lorde, #Import 2026-11-04 19:11

Coming together   
it is easier to work   
after our bodies   
meet  
paper and pen  
neither care nor profit  
whether we write or not  
but as your body moves  
under my hands   
charged and waiting   
we cut the leash  
you create me against your thighs   
hilly with images  
moving through our word countries   
my body  
writes into your flesh  
the poem  
you make of me.  
  
Touching you I catch midnight  
as moon fires set in my throat   
I love you flesh into blossom   
I made you  
and take you made  
into me.

Lorde, Audre. [Coal](https://www.google.com/books/edition/%5F/NwWiQgAACAAJ?hl=en&kptab=getbook&ref=poetry101.love). United Kingdom, W.W. Norton, 1996.

### Why I chose this poem

I love how I think I know exactly where the punctuation belongs even in the areas of ambiguity. I love the way that writing and bodies are intertwined, that we make each other, that we take into ourselves what we make of each other. I love the way this poem grabs me deeper than words.