Danuta

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What shy pearl of truth’s hidden in the loins

Of such a lusty female as my wife.

I never saw a woman so bent on breeding. Her desire

Is burning up her self-respect,

Her youth, her beauty and her vivid mind.

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Look

Here she lies interpreting God’s will:

Her breasts mauve-tipped, her mind in abeyance.

Alive as fire, as serpent and as river,

As sap, as bird, as whirlwind.

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This

Is the moment of my capture, her capitulation.

And deeds will be sure to end the argument,

For I see the foreshadow of her female being

Married to godhead; pledged to

A dull material salvation

Through imperative incarnation.

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Let

Me swim in her mind and see before she swoons

Her pulsing pity for mortality.

What actresses, waitresses are left unborn?

What corded hearts unbeating?

What women never to lie down and call upon men

To regenerate humanity upon a goddess supine?