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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANDROGYNY, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: They nestle in the hairs of your chest Last Line: Suckling her thirst at a man's breast. Subject(s): Bodies; Sex | |||
They nestle in the hairs of your chest like puckered faces of starved children those little brothers of my nipples tight male buds that hardened at puberty against all feeling just as your hands turned palm to fist closed against yourself and knuckled into you life. These years later lulling you in my arms I mouth those small fists back to tenderness tongue them to the male cry of the woman waked in your flesh by a female child suckling her thirst at a man's breast. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LIE DOWN WITH A MAN by TONY HOAGLAND ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER PORTRAIT WITH BROWN HAIR by DONALD JUSTICE NATIONAL NUDIST CLUB NEWSLETTER by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM BLACKOUT SONNETS by JOAN LARKIN SEX IS NOT IMPORTANT by JAN HELLER LEVI WHAT THE MAGDALENE SAW by TIMOTHY LIU |
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