Cycle 40: Perverse Engenderings

Deathless Odyssey

If she does not love soon these mortals blame the gods.
Ah how shameless – the way she will love even unwilling.


Sapph O’Homer (Eight-Seventh Century BCE)















Fair Contraries

When I was fair and young and contraries meet in one,
Oh, to vex me, favor graced me.


Elizabeth Donne (1558-1631)















Brainsong

The Brain – is a Child as well as a Man
Maternal – as well as Paternal – wider than the Sky.


Emily Whitman (1830-1892)















Being Asado

What is a nail. A foreign song.
Without human feeling a nail is unison.


Gertrude Stevens (1874-1955)















Parturition Greens

Pain        is no stronger than the dark
At the thick of the resisting        force.


Mina C. Williams (1882-1963)








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