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Forthcoming

The Entertainers
2nd edition

The troupe has expanded to 12. Illustrated with poet’s linocuts.

 

Bareback


The waist-high net-clad thighs
and clenched and seam-drawn rump
that swoop before your eyes,
the tasselled basque and deep
décolletage that keep
me barely in, and shown
shaved oxter, arms upthrown,
call for applause when, jump
and somersault complete,
I land on slender feet.
These, as Eros fancies,
should surmount sleek ponies’ dances.
And yet the truth, although you see no horn,
is that I am the Virgin tames the Unicorn.

 

 

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