George, I am just not that innocent!!! You are turning me into a nun or something (my least favorite fantasy), probably because you cannot really know what a person is like totally from just talking and posting online. Anyway, I do not feel seduced. I am a totally grown-up woman, in charge of what I think and write and do. I am sorry you feel horrified, but don't want you to believe I am really conservative or prim, because I am not, and I don't want to be that way.
Now, a poem I thought was pretty interesting, from an Australian woman poet who is famous there, but to whom I have not been exposed before. She won the Australian National Book Award for Poetry in 1995. She writes about sex assertively, according to The Bulletin with Newsweek, which is an Australian magazine which published her poem. She describes herself as a "hodge-podge" pagan, incidentally. She says "I like aliveness . . . I'm aware of a 'bliss' in things though I cerntainly don't have access to it all the time. But, no, I don't long for heaven or fear hell. I just love consciousness even if it's uncomfortable."
A woman after my own heart!
DEADLY SEA
What is the brain coral
dreaming
in the warm deep
of this deadly sea?
I creep its soft white sand
my left knee
catching the edge
of every dozing rock.
The water is a gorgeous
lulling aqua
tugging like the taboo mouth
of the woman
you can't swim in.
This sea has been so patient.
It has serenely
filed its nails
it has resisted looking
at its watch
or sighing.
It has always known
I was on my way.
Dorothy Porter |
