On Unraveling Again Inside Gay Bars

‘Dressings around wounds are loosening at 2:14 a.m. on walks back home from a crowded club’

Photo: Courtesy of Juanita MORE!/Fred Rowe

I’ve been drinking more
sugar-free Red Bull, that is
inside the city’s gay bars.

I forgot what it felt like to be thrown into throngs
of warm bodies, dense and nimble…