I used to watch his cock all day long.. I don't know if he knew how often I watched that part of him, I had never told him. Always angling down the right side of his tight jeans; outline clear. And always I walked around my labia swollen, an apricot between my legs, ready to be eaten.
And now I sit here in an Italian restaurant with him. My desire huge and unwieldy, my flesh full and my apricot drips my clit hard as its pit. I'm married, 5 years now and yet still I sit beside him here.
He eats his pasta and I stare at his strong outdoor fingers and veiny hands and then his muscular forearms. Still some of that outdoor man left, still pieces even though his middle is softer, his mustache grayer. He's an administrator now - far from that guy I knew who hiked all day to toss water bottles in a lake to test for water quality.
Still, I know what he has down there under the table in his lap. I remember its power and its hold over me. I know how it can grow; much longer until my eyes are riveted on his jeans and I can't tear them away. Tonight, though, it's hidden, under the table in slightly baggy pants, the type you would wear to meetings with clients.
We eat food, and I am food. I drip a little more, my vulva is warm thick cake batter dripping all over the chair. I want him to dip his fingers in me and suck them off slowly. As if I were a dipperful of hot fudge sauce. To put his fingers in my mouth so I could taste and lick the sweet saltiness too. Right there in the restaurant. I want to savor the taste of it and see the darkness of lust in his eyes. I want his fingers deep inside me, pushing hard and deep. Instead, I leak all over the chair.
He talks about work, about vacation, about his house. I listen with only the minimum attention it takes to occasionally say m'hmm. I can't focus on this talk - it's not why I'm here. I scoop a few strands of green noodles on my fork. I jiggle the fork in the air, noodles dangling, and then smack it on the green pile on my plate, lumpy cold, congealed pesto on it. I can feel my nervousness rise up to my throat and surround a noodle still stuck there. I want to talk about the reason that I am here. I smash my fork into my noodles and I can feel my frustration. So can he and he stops talking. We look at each other and burst out laughing; some of the tension is taken away with the laughter.
"Can we talk about my request? The reason I am here," I ask. Desire aches in my wrists, my belly, my ass, the place where each little hair attaches to my head - that place that remembers his touch. I want to slide on his sweat slicked skin. "Sure," he says. Except I don't want to talk at all. What I really want to do is go outside right this moment and fuck. Let's get out of here, can we go to the back of your truck, I want to say. Lie down on the hard ridges that are probably there although I've never been there.
I want to feel his hot penis in the entrances and exits in my body. In ANY entrance or exit - any would do. My mouth - sucking on him, until hot juice squirted, letting it run down my chin. In the ass, oh yes, that too, especially that, I remember that very well. In slowly, slowly because he's big and I'm not used to anything up there. Feel his belly skin kissing my lower back.
And of course, in the usual place, the vagina, the cunt, the vulva, the soaking sucking cave where once only fingers and waxy long phallic vegetables had been. Where later IUDs and diaphragms waited. Where dildos and penises, yes those, a number of them over the years, some memorable, some not, had been.
And now where now two fiery bowling ball heads of babies had passed. Molly, my body trying to expel her over and over again. Over 40 hours and nothing left when the doctor finally pulled her out of me. And Abby in a hurry taking 8 minutes of pushing they told me. I don't know - it was forever. Me screaming -get that thing out of me- and then my daughter came out blue and with a cord wrapped around her neck. All of a sudden everyone was quiet and very busy. I didn't know - they didn't tell me. I was just left with my agonizing efforts to push out the placenta.