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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama will sign a memorandum Wednesday granting health care and other benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees, two senior administration officials said.
President Obama has been criticized by gay rights activists for not doing more since taking office.
The signing will take place in the Oval Office and follows sharp criticism of the president over a Justice Department motion filed last week in support of the Defense of Marriage Act -- which opposes same-sex marriage -- that used the government's interest in opposing incestuous marriages to support its position against same-sex marriage.
Gay and lesbian advocates have also faulted the Obama administration for not moving to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that bars officials from asking about a service member's sexual orientation but also bars the service member from revealing it.
The president rankled gay advocates before his inauguration when he named megachurch pastor the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his swearing-in. Warren, in an interview with Belief.net, likened homosexuality to bestiality and incest. He also supported California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in that state.
During the Warren controversy, Obama -- who frequently spoke in favor of gay and lesbian rights during the campaign but has said he opposes same-sex marriage -- declared himself "a fierce advocate for gay and lesbian Americans."
I will admit
My major flaw
Is that
I often watch you sleep.
Not because I need
Such near and open
Sights of beauty
But for the breaths
You take.
Slow. Heavy.
Hushed
just at the end.
For what I imagine them to mean.
So close to my face and neck.
In my back.
In this bed instead of another.
Your arm the only one to make my waist seem
Small when wrapped around it.
You never one to say
I love you.
Me too
Untrusting of my heart to admit
I feel
It I think with each rising
of your chest.
Each fall your response
to a million questions
My answer always different
always yes
to the silent changes in a face gone peaceful
i wonder
what would you say to me
wonder
does my slumber holds you captive
if ever i do sleep
I confess
the greater flaw
than beholding you
is praying
that you are sometimes captivated by me.
this makes me think of this ...
ok ... maybe the words and uhhh... not so much the black history images. whatevs.
sometimes you wake
and find yourself
soil
loose
and falling
fast through fingers free
and not your own
unearthed
crashing down into you
meeting your
selves as
oceans expanding width-wise
then upwards
chasing moons
sometimes you stop
to seize
this moment
and even it has shifted
into itself
a distant dream
of sand
and salt
a tactile memory of what once was
and now seems
more out-of-body
than experience
a touch-and-go encounter
with the third shift gods
sometimes you pray
the second chance goes
a lot like the first
maybe faster
less structured
more bones to the milk
with sparkling cinders left at the edges
for guiding posts
and fence rails
for barbed wire
and jagged teeth
something sharp to hold you close
sometimes you wake
to find yourself falling
sometimes the falling
is the dream
photo by sarah green
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