HERMAPHROPOETICS
for Margaret Harrington
The
image of a child
taken
by a master photographer
a
little girl in harem pants then
a
boy in a leather skirt
fickle
she saunters by a boy warrior
with
bright red lips
A
jingling sound
a
charm bracelet made in China
dangling
an acrobat a whirling dervish
a
swimmer a drummer girl
meek
sweetness the face the face
of
the hermaphrodite the skin
berries
and apricots the lips
the
tongue tasting smelling
the
earlobes earlobes jingling
little
bells a clinking sound
a
charm bracelet made in China
a
dancer a baker kneading dough
a
beauty queen wearing a thong
gong
gong gong
L’École
Hermaphropoetics
of
brick and concrete a plug and socket
a
nozzle of a hose vigilant
the
gardener spraying vigilant
the
baker kneading
Wedding
bells wedding cake
serene
the boy in a bridal gown
joyful
the groom lifting the veil
a
long curved
fingernail
circles
the
cleft
berries
and apricots
under
the veil
See
the photos of a master
a
master photographer altering
perception
ethereal the child emerging
from
the mists the mists of Delphi
the
physical poetic heat turning
sand
into glass word
into
bread bread into word
vigilant
the baker kneading the dough
silence
of the yeast
The
hermaphrodite
anchoring
desire her skeletal structure
a
fusion of human and fish
iridescent
his pelvis inside a dark
purple
fruit the core divided
A
jingling sound
a
charm bracelet made in China
dangling
an acrobat a baker a hyena
a
beauty queen wearing a thong
playful
the hyena a fringe
of
blood drool and excrement
circles
the snout
a
jingling sound a charm bracelet
made
in China dangling a boy soldier
a
panda bear a wedding bell a rifle
dangling
a nozzle of a hose a skull
an
automobile a monk
dangling
a house a dog a tree
a
bird a light bulb
© George Economou
Rochelle
Owens' many books include New and Selected Poems, 1961-1996,
Luca: Discourse on Life and Death, and Solitary Workwoman
(all from Junction Press), Plays by Rochelle Owens (Broadway
Play Publishing, 2000), and the novel Journey to Purity
(Texture Press, 2009). Out of Ur: New and Selected Poems,
1961-2012, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books.
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