Kim Loomis-Bennett was born and educated in the Pacific Northwest where she still resides with her husband and two children. She earned her MA in Creative Writing at Wilkes University and is working toward her MFA with a concentration in poetry. She works as an adjunct writing instructor at Centralia College East in Morton, Washington. Her poems have appeared in **The November 3rd Club Journal** and **The Legendary**. She is currently seeking publication for her first collection of poems, SOILED DOVES, a historical
sequence centered on a 1910 Seattle brothel. You can reach her at kim.loomisbennett@gmail.com For more of her writing visit her blog at kimloomisbennett.tumblr.com.
Three Poems (August 20, 2010. Issue 20.)
The Hillside Brothel's Code of Conduct
Smile as you undress Let him freely caress Show no distress After, clean up the mess Your real name, never confess
Vintage Porn
The slick pink is missing
in the jerky frames of gray-hued erections
and dark-lipped provocations.
The moaning love-call is muted
to a mouthing, voiceless gimmick
of seduction: cunt meets dick.
Here comes the oldest show on earth:
The wet slap of coupling
comes with soundless friction,
jostling ejaculations.
But I am not the intended audience:
In the wild west, men in waiting rooms,
horny for a whore,
watched the films as goad, spur.
Brief brothel films of ass and titties
in familiar and foreign cities
accompanied by five-minute ditties.
This is getting ridiculous.
The men put their cocks inside, backside,
the couples—nameless—silently progress
toward climax, with mechanical congress.
H. W. Long, M.D., Knows Some Things about Marriage that All Sane People Ought to Know
For instance, Semen is a most powerful stimulant. Many women increase in flesh as they avail themselves of this healthful food.
For Example, We eat when we are hungry, but it is wrong to gorge oneself on such food. Don’t wear the poor man out.
Furthermore, Some wives are so passionate they will ‘spend’ several times to the husband’s once. They are lovely, highly accomplished, and in no sense ‘worldly minded.’ Indeed, many husbands rejoice in a lascivious wife.
Last and most important, Let the husband keep his head, and the wife utterly lose hers. Let go, go, go! No one cares where! Do this again and again—married life will be glorious!
(H.W. Long, M.D. published a sexual self-help text in the early 20th Century. Much of his advice is very sane, some of it is quite zealous.)
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Quick-Oh (March 20, 2009. Issue 15. The DirtyDirty.)
A horny tart named Victoria
Hurried her lovers to her clitoria
They coaxed with their thumbs
They flickered their tongues
Until she howled like a lady gorillia.