NORBERT KRAPF

SOUL SONG

When our lips
touched hers
were so soft
& moist mine
opened & I
felt her soul
slip in &
tingle the tongue
that gives you
these words.
 

Norbert Krapf, winner of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, is the author of twelve poetry collections, including the recent The Country I Come From, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He directs the C.W. Post Poetry Center of Long Island University.