Maternal
Impressions by Daniel M. Nester |
A
new discovery: Blake was afraid of hermaphrodites. Terrified! Not as wacky as Yeats' monkey balls or Bukowski's wife-kicks on the couch but clearly something of note. I book out of the library, Visions of Albion above, flowers fastened to loins, boys neutered from coal dust. I think of clipped-off birthrites and dig up maternal impression stories, whole texts on webbed feet and harelips- Bless these stories! Bless the fish boy, the elephant infant, bless the cat woman, bumpy-head king triplets born at a fair. Bless hermaphrodites, nativity scenes with live animals, and God bless Blake, without contraries there can be no progression. Bless the useless nodules that no doubt flounced Among School Children along. Bless the whole idea of talking animals. Bless Bukowski, his soft tennis shoes and 14-point Palatino. Throw in middle-class poets, their overbearing second wives. Bless all of this fear and birth and sex, mix it up in the favorite animal dreams of kids. Let the beasts gobble them up every October. Let them all think of tigers when they go up to bed. |
Email: danielmnester@hotmail.com |
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