Conceptual Sex
For Sally
I’ve never had it
unless you count fantasies:
I conceptualized another woman
and touched myself
before I ever had sex
but sex to conceive?
I can’t comprehend
the concept.
Forgive me,
you’re copulating
crazily sans contraception
it is your mission
in the missionary position
to create the conditions
for insemination
to stimulate fertilization
ultimately to commence
gestation all in all
we might colloquially
call such a collection
of extracurriculars “getting
knocked up” an elementary
enterprise which was less work
with more excitement
when we were teens
conceptualizing sex.
– julie r. enszer