Touching fire : [electronic resource] erotic writings by women / edited by Louise Thornton, Jan Sturtevant, and Amber Coverdale Sumrall.

Baptizing / Alice Munro -- Twilight / Doreen Stock -- The secret / Janet Aalfs -- From: "The heart of the fire" / Cerridwen Fallingstar -- From: "Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- Paper boy / Amber Coverdale Sumrall -- First sex / Sharon Olds -- I am horny / Susan Lysik -- Re-forming the crystal / Adrienne Rich -- Womantides / Amber Coverdale Sumrall -- Touching / Terry L. McMillan -- Kalaloch / Carolyn Forche -- Moving house / Patrice Vecchione -- The game of chess / Sandy Boucher -- Talking of stars / Rosemary Daniell -- Eros / Yuri Kageyama -- New mother / Sharon Olds -- Domestic love / Jill Jeffery Ginghofer -- Beginning to love again, in the middle of life / Carol Staudacher -- From: "Winter's edge" / Valerie Miner -- Shih Ho: biting through / Flora Durham -- May day / Judith W. Steinbergh -- Let's make jazz / Elisa Adler -- There are flowers for everyone in these hills / Gina Covina -- This year I can't complain / Irene Marcuse -- Frontispoem: Lost copper / Wendy Rose -- The privacy of corn / Ann Zoller -- An encounter in Muse, Pa. / Helen Ruggieri -- A bear story / Anne Cameron -- Desire / Florinda Colavin -- What will we do about Angus? / Eva Shaderowfsky -- Ovation / Deena Metzger -- Wolf man / Clarinda Harriss Lott.

After love / Maxine Kumin -- This body I love / Deborah Abbott -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- On second thought / Maude Meehan -- Late August / Margaret Atwood -- Careless love / Louise Thornton -- Rocking / Renée Ashley -- Moon in Taurus / Deena Metzger -- The coyotes / Deborah Abbott -- Lot's wife / Nancy Redwine -- Rain tree / Jan Sturtevant -- China / Dorianne Laux -- It / Sharon Olds -- Where we are now / Cathryn Alpert -- Piñata / Kathy Metcalfe -- From: "Zami: a new spelling of my name" / Audre Lorde -- Porch lovin / Judith W. Steinbergh -- The laundromat / Dorianne Laux -- The triangle / Patricia McConnel -- Under red Aries / Marge Piercy -- Why can't I leave you / Ai (Florence Ogawa) -- Stephanie / Joan McMillan -- Star quilt / Roberta Hill Whiteman -- Snow in May / Marge Piercy -- Siesta / Amber Coverdale Sumrall -- Hair / Enid Shomer -- A simple act / Beth Brant -- The ring-necked snake / Naomi Clark -- The natural lover / Jill Jeffery Ginghofer -- Do you know the facts of life? / Lynn Luria-Sukenick -- Afternoon poem for a new lover / Susan Lysik -- If you want me / Ellen Bass -- Care in the holding / Maureen Brady -- To the angel / Abbey Niebauer -- Elizabeth and William / Heather Grey -- Each bird walking / Tess Gallagher -- Out of darkness / Amber Coverdale Sumrall -- Afternoon I almost left you / Abby Niebauer -- Of gravity and angels / Jane Hirshfield.