May 2, 2008
Pied Booty
Just digging through some old poetry magazines, and found this in the summer 2005 issue (in case you don’t know the original, read that first):
Pied Booty
Glory be to God for sexy things--
For cries of coupled lovers as they bind and bow;
For moles that on her hip'll make his dolphin swim,
Fresh and fired up; nutty balls; G-strings;
Lovescapes pulsing and flesh-shoaled--furrow and plow;
And all shapes, their leer and freckle and whim.
All people dumpy, bald, regressive, strange;
Whoever is fickle, faithful (who knows how?)
With slick, abrasive; sweet, sour; disheveled, trim;
Who father-forth and mother-forth all change--
Praise Him.
Dabney Stuart
Gerard Manley Hopkins is spinning in his grave.