Sunday, July 19, 2009

Clitoral Sonnet

Plural forms of "clitoris" were passe as a verse form
"the maiden's organ" witness'd be to all the woods and plain
by the swans a female bodybuilder playing with enlarged
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Using Pavlovian Theory to Think outside the vagina
a clitoral orgasm with . . . the marriage of true minds
. . . and the gulf between . . . "Moonlight" for my clit
the beloved young man is figured as "beauty's rose."

no woman is described in the sonnets as being on top—
coat of hair surrounding it, the single (bell) on its edge—
no vibrators melons dildos jugs or flower imagery
referring to clitoral rather than phallic jouissance

The structure of for instance—the small i, the clitoris—
come to the rescue as usual, with a consonant-heavy sonnet

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