listening to “Suit & Tie,” Justin Timberlake

red dress shimmies itself off the velvet hanger
skims my head pendulum hips figure 8
smile&smooth it over places I

Guccied on each brass blast in that bridge
punctuated with chandelier eruptions
tuxedo sharp on lowkey croon

love is swingin’ in the air tonight (me too!)
a luscious satin bag on gold chain curls unfurled
stilettos aimed skyward

trumpet players catch me midair on one brilliant burst
falsetto kiss to my neck pulls me to plush&glittering
vinyl clouds my floating dance floor

Clive Christian-soaked collars hazy club light know my
name (alias) and martini Alexander Wang
bodycons me hands-on-hips Jungle Red lips

all eyes rivet I’m smoldering (watch: detached)
but know all the silk ties in my orbit
point their limos (polite term) to my planet

a black leather shoe slides between my heels
cummerbund steers near drums clap
slightly out of time delirious stars flip

this slow-drawl trip to a synthesizer fantasy
midnight sighs luxuriant goodbyes that last
note dwindles in my earbuds replayed for hard days

Dana Kinsey is an actor and teacher published in One Art, Porcupine Literary, Sledgehammer Lit, On the Seawall, West Trestle Review, Prose Online, and Teaching Theatre. Dana's play, WaterRise, was produced at the Gene Frankel Theatre. Her chapbook Mixtape Venus is forthcoming from I. Giraffe Press. Visit wordsbyDK.com.