With all respect to David, this reminds me a little of the line Auden
considered his worst: something very like "And Cynthia, whose leaping
breasts / I pursued all that autumn".
A
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>David B, by the way, in that poem you posted a couple days ago,
>the phrase "your running sex": I ask this seriously, more or less,
>and I do so in full awareness that the question may betray a pitiful
>paucity of poetic perspicaciousness on my part, but by this
>"running" conceit, am I, as reader, meant to imagine a penis or
>vagina with tiny legs, say, running away rapidly from you and your
>lover?
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>Kent
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