Ben Togut
Mark Rothko: Ochre and Red on Red
In front of the mirror
another self Golden
body Screen of morning
light You’d never know him
Boy as old as the century
slipping into new clothes
The sun warmed
him scalded him
like the best lover How I envied him
He gave his body away like summer
The flowers exhale
their fragrance I inhale
memory I was touched
I was silk the light
bled through
Ben Togut reads “Mark Rothko: Ochre and Red on Red”
Ben Togut is a poet, journalist, and singer-songwriter from New York City. His poems are published or forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cortland Review, Longleaf Review, and elsewhere. He recently graduated from Wesleyan University.