Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MULIER, by SOLANGE STRONG


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MULIER, by                    
First Line: A woman's body is but magdalene's
Last Line: The penny always lurks between her lips.
Subject(s): Bodies; Women


A woman's body is but Magdalene's,
Poor caryatid's strait-sheathed in cinctured pleats
And sinuate beneath this false constraint;
An avatar of things not dead, serene
With those unborn; a riddle that repeats
Itself perforce, all answerless, attaint
With perpetuity. Although there whips
Between her temple-bones infinity
(Vast relic of a moral deity),
The penny always lurks between her lips.





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