Sapphics (And Why Not?) From the Second Aisle Over
Avid book-browser, tell me: as you wander
Cloudlike, absorbing droplets from this vast and
Paperback jungle, don’t you find the nourish-
ment a bit spicy?
Cloudlike, absorbing droplets from this vast and
Paperback jungle, don’t you find the nourish-
ment a bit spicy?
Such goings-on between the pliant covers!
Pretty broad nudges, clinical descriptions;
Intimate themes so fully orchestrated,
With variations!
Pretty broad nudges, clinical descriptions;
Intimate themes so fully orchestrated,
With variations!
O tempora! and O the naughty mores!
Don’t you agree that many of these volumes
Grandmother would have hidden (had she had them)
Yards up the chimney?
Don’t you agree that many of these volumes
Grandmother would have hidden (had she had them)
Yards up the chimney?
Grandma a prude? Perhaps. But do we need to
Map so precisely all the primrose turnpikes?
Need Mrs. Grundy prune the perfumed garden
In a bikini?
Map so precisely all the primrose turnpikes?
Need Mrs. Grundy prune the perfumed garden
In a bikini?
Aren’t you surprised that, out there in the sunlight,
Lacking our culture, unenlightened flowers,
Birds that arc bookless, uninstructed bees are
Doing quite nicely?
Lacking our culture, unenlightened flowers,
Birds that arc bookless, uninstructed bees are
Doing quite nicely?