I vaguelly remember as a former nurse a condition known as Orchitis which if
I remember rightly was inflamation of some aspects of the male reproductive
system. Sally J
>From: Helen Clare <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: At Dawn
>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:06:38 +0100
>
>I've been waiting to comment on this, not wanting to reveal myself as the
>only one with a dirty mind... but I guess it is too late to be coy.
>On one level this is a poem about spring and birth, and the violence
>implicit that.
>But I can't help but observe that the orchid is often used to represent the
>male genitals... and I wondered if you were hinting at another kind of dawn
>rising here!
>Helen
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Horwood" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 1:33 PM
>Subject: New sub: At Dawn
>
>
>At Dawn
>
>I never wanted this, the heart pumping,
>blood punishing the veins in thin wrists.
>
>The skin below my ribs parts and tears
>and the orchid pushes its silky stem
>at the wound´s livid lips,
>stretching flaps of flesh
>into a red-raw O.
>
>Orchis raises his headbud,
>dislodging cells like grains of soil,
>rippling my belly and I cannot look
>away, though the starting day lights
>the vegetable world outside my window
>and streaks the dawn sky.
>
>Could I rise and step out, barefoot,
>on the cool grass beneath the trees?
>
>I lie back on my pillow in single
>contemplation of the orchid blooming
>below my heart, streaked purple and yellow,
>lurid as any sky at dawn
>and imagine the feel of cool grass on bare feet.
>
>
>
>Mike
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