In this story
In this story a
warhol-like
playfulness
a vinyl fruit of desire
teasing femme/homme
bringing millions to their knees
In a dream of a hermaphrodite
in silhouette
her/his body
elegant the fusion of human and bird
vertical
horizontal
l’amour impossible
l’amour possible
the physical poetic
iridescent her pelvis
his/her body
spiritual/carnal
inside a dark
purple fruit
the core divided
In a dream of a boy warrior
with bright red lips
her skin berries
and apricots
diaphanous
floating
languid the tendrils of pubic hair
a flush of wet hot air burning
her neck and face
Sorcery of his female brain
In this story a
warhol-like
playfulness
teasing femme/homme
her teeth overlapping
licking
a clot of blood
A hunter gatherer
meat nuts fruit
his platinum blond curls
bringing millions to their knees
Love of the hermaphrodite
like a white swan
her hollow bones
sculpted delicate
elegant the fusion
of human and bird
his hollow bones glowing under
a black light
magnetic her hollow bones
glowing in the dark
Meek sweetness the face the face
of the hermaphrodite
teasing femme/homme
Out of the hole of Baudelaire
emerging from the mists of Cumae
A long curved fingernail
tracing a circle a
cleft tracing
the pink mauve
folds
tracing the flower vulva
the mother misery
the father terror
a slit in the stalk
blood seeping
carnal/spiritual
green and pale the scrotal lily
In this story a
warhol-like
playfulness
a vinyl fruit of desire
teasing femme/homme
bringing millions to their knees
[Note. Rochelle Owens' latest
book, Out of Ur: New & Selected Poems 1961-2012
is now awaiting publication by Shearsman Books.
Of her poems here & elsewhere I wrote: “There is a voice in Owens’
work … like a fierce and unrelenting force of nature. Sharp and visual, she
combines a landscape with a poetics, the domestic with the mythic, machines
with the organic living world from which arises a construct and a fused vision:
poetry and life.”(J.R.)
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