<p>In <em>The Bare Thing</em> Len Lukowski delves into queer desire in an urgent rough and surprisingly playful fashion. Lukowski through a wickedly subversive sense of humor satirizes the plot of Notting Hill laments an unused dildo and in a lyrical flourish compares his lovers to 'the sky in a Van Gogh painting'. The poems celebrate illicit desire and the male body's vulnerability; transitioning taking risks and opening the window to an unseen world.</p>