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Airbnb Art by Christian Gullette


Under a Sputnik-shaped lamp, 

a Picasso print with three eyes.

 

My husband’s prosthetic eye 

is as blue as the other. 

 

After the surgery, 

we had sex,

 

his eye under a gauze tent. 

I injected lidocaine through a tube that

coiled behind the bandage.

 

I cleaned his armpits 

with a washcloth.

 

There were still traces 

of a purple arrow 

 

drawn by the nervous surgeon.

 

The ocularist hand-painted his pupil.

It looks like the eye I always loved.

 


Christian Gullette is a National Poetry Series finalist and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, Northwest Review, and other journals. He was a finalist for the 2021 Four Way Books Levis Prize. He serves as the editor-in-chief of The Cortland Review. 


31 January 2022



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