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Well, no: it seems to me to be saying, "Seduce me."

On 5/7/06, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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>
>


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