Kevin Coval

Posing

in a full length mirror
on the sliding closet door
of the bedroom i share
with my brother, in the town-
home my mother rents
in the suburbs, an X-
cap tilts / over my shaved head
like an unplayable pinball machine.
nose still too big for my face.
chin hairs, i’d call a go-tee
struggle for articulation.

i look hard

i am shirtless
in a Raiders Starter
jacket, belt strung thru loops
of 38/34 jeans, pools of denim
wade at my Tim-less ankles.

every muscle in my body
wishes it were Bigger.