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On 8/5/06 2:03 AM, "Jon Corelis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Anyway:  If seduction poetry is a
> linguistic sexual display action, then it is essentially male, which
> means that women can enter into the whole half realm of poetry which
> is seduction display only by taking on a male voice.

Funnily enough, when I was around 20 (such ages past, and long enough ago to
be another person) I wrote a poem called Seduction Poem.  Is it in a "male
voice"? Just curious -

Cheers

A

I want the slew of muscle, a less
cerebral meeting place:  no word
but your male shout, the shirred
unpublic face and honest skin
crying to me, yes,
the mouthless, eyeless tenderness
crying to be let in.
 
Unbutton all your weight, like a bird
flying the night's starred nakedness:
put down your grammatical tongue, undress
your correct and social skin:
come white and absurd
all your language one word
crying to be let in.
 


Alison Croggon

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