Kit Kelen #16 = bawdy body

16

bawdy body

after Beatrice Machet's 'il est temps de boire'

https://conversationinpoetry.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/beatrice-machet-14-its-time-to-drink.html

il est temps pour

ton paillard de corps

de boire

a clamber up

and knee sit

sip this

let's do the Aristophanes cartwheel

it's all I'm yearning for

roll on!

birds do

and preen

and coo

first words are between us

they are now

nudge and wink

mon petit chou

be my maîtresse

a Rabelais of rudeness

cloister me a monk

for tickle

and tuneful

the form admired

and led to love

was words become a face

and then you're in forever

which is the livelong day

in the end you itch to ache

and equally rub here

that every animal after sad

caught in the curlicue

sat on the bed

then scamper away

the tree becomes an animal

the animal a tree

like sex remembered - treasure it

because you will be gone