The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 7/19/06)

[RetroLounge]

Romantic Gestures

One pressed me against a white oak,
its branches preparing to hand down the evening,
lengthening like my shoulder blades the possibilities
of that intersection between normal

and beautiful. This quiet day surprised by intrusion,
a front door’s insistence on the outside,
wide as anyone’s comprehension of it,
beautiful as a dress, and the tree

was a way of speaking, and up through the limbs
hung a distance of blues and whites.
What else should I remember? There were blooms
whose petals felt like flesh,

the flesh of a hand, or a mouth, petals
cream at the tip, their desperate move
toward the sepal, the ovary, that
fevered the cream to a pink; but still,

What white oak? What afternoon?
The body’s inability to be a part
of the popular world. So, I would like to say,
so, I let the dress fall open,

I let go of my dress, we opened the dress
together, as if uprooting flowers,
as if for a moment its pattern of dogwood
began a bloom, and now the landscape

was inside it, this ceremony
of the dress, how it could become
a little diaphanous threshold
against the rational world of things.

Amy Newman

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RL

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[wildhorses]

1. confusing but,

oh so sexy!
:hi:

[RetroLounge]

2. I've been called that before...

:rofl:

:hi:

RL

[wildhorses]

3. good to see you laughing

a good mystery is fun to read...

[miss_american_pie]

4. Oh wow

and that last stanze, just wow. :hi:

[RetroLounge]

5. ...

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear RetroLounge.......

Just very sexy! Confusing, yes, as wildhorses said..........

But the eroticism just comes at you........so vividly and beautifully.......

It makes me think about trees in a very new way.....

I like it!

Thank you.......


:loveya: :hug:

[RetroLounge]

7. But eroticism and sex can cause confusion

can't it?

RL