poetry workshop
the young men stay behind
soaping dishes
she is surprised by their penchant
for bubbling kitchen mirth
would it surprise the women
parting quickly
that these men in iambic
spur a competition
to be the worst at sport
and would it surprise
the grumpy men in gardens
that their ladies, immersed in Whitman
prefer a house away from home
would it surprise, at all, the young ladies
that jouissance-men, like petals
prefer the power in a language
Chaucer honed
it does not surprise her
to see a vision in their maleness
like a Paris kiss of Picasso’s time
this is
Helen Hagemann, Edith Cowan House, ECU Joondalup WA 29/8/01, 1.20pm
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