The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 1/8/2009)

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Insemination Tango

A man in the south of France flaps his elbows
and dances with a female crane, who is
the last of the Black-tails. He hoots
and coos, and she lowers her long
delicate neck. Yesterday the man had sunned
and swum amid a swarm of nude swimmers
in the Riviera’s cloudy waters, so that now
his skin shines pink, his bald spot
darkened. He lifts his arms, and the bird
lifts her wings. He struts, high-stepping
across the pen in which she’s lived her whole
life, and has come to allow this display
of a man’s possible desire. The flutter
of black tail feathers raised: her iridescent
acquiescence. That low sweeping squawk:
her answer of longing. And though the man’s
response is silly, strange, and sadly
wrong, it will do to stir her enough—
so that whatever he’s hiding, whatever he’s holding
in his clenched flailing fist like a secret
kept too long alone, she can finally let him
let go—now that she’s ready to stand still
and take whatever that love is he’s giving.

Nance Van Winckel

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[blueraven95]

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[Chorophyll]

2. Odd.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Retro!

Somehow this reminds me of Leda and the Swan...

Reversed, of course!

But though odd, this poem is quite lyrical and lovely...

Thank you!

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[BlueIris]

5. Hee. Bizarre. I love it. nt

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[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Not quite the classic "Disguised Greek God seduces virgin" but I'll allow it.

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10. Hee

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