Re: Isis in Denial / Joy Yourcenar
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> msifg wrote: > "George Dance" <georgedance04> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> Isis in Denial >> >> On the evershifting river's edge. >> in the shadow >> of future pyramids, >> Isis weeps for Osiris, >> clutching the gory bites >> of her cannibalized love >> in small, tear-stained hands. >> >> Her black hair curtain >> flows like a river >> raging tenderly, >> bathing the lost god's >> dismembered corpse >> in the wine of remembrance, >> her history residing >> in the scintillating rays >> of his infrequent smiles. >> >> Carnal knowledge incarnate, >> she incubates her god, >> feeling him form in her. >> Isis, belligerent and bulimic, >> gorges on his salty, >> insufficient flesh >> hoping to ingest >> enough masculinity >> to regurgitate him >> naked, perfect and whole. >> >> On her knees >> on burning sand, >> Isis chokes >> on blood and semen; >> convulsed by revulsion, >> yet compelled to re-enact >> this postcoital fleshfeast. >> >> Sticking her tallow- stained hand >> down her own throat, >> Isis shudders >> from the self-inflicted >> violence of Osiris' creation >> and vomiting bone and gristle, >> sacrifices herself >> to give Osiris life. >> >> >> --- >> Joy Yourcenar, writing as "[email protected]" >> Feb. 10, 1997 >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >> >> "This is revolting and disgusting. >> And you call this poetry???????? >> Sick to my stomach, Sharon" >> - Sharon McElroy on "Isis in Denial" >> >> >> >> -- >> > > > > > > uh! > > i hear "guinevere's bed" creaking in the background. > > vindication is the sound; the sound of one hand clapping. > > that would be the hand of the jester tapping his foot > to the sound of the last beats of a man's heart. > > a heart that never learned to dance. > > let me guess, hoseman missed the chance to put > joy whatserface in her place here. > > yes, "guinevere's bed" is looking so comfortable about now. > > let the bums sleep in the park bench. > > i'm sleeping in comfort tonight. > > > msifg Hello again Matt, long time no see. 😏 This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=658761506#658761506 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655