Sweetly Erotic

[laughingbee.livejournal.com]

Last Gods by Galway Kinnell

She sits naked on a rock
a few yards out in the water.
He stands on the shore,
also naked, picking blueberries.
She calls. He turns. She opens
her legs showing him her great beauty,
and smiles, a bow of lips
seeming to tie together
the ends of the earth.
Splashing her image
to pieces, he wades out
and stands before her, sunk
to the anklebones in leaf-muck
and bottom-slime &emdash; the intimacy
of the visible world. He puts
a berry in its shirt of mist
into her mouth.
She swallows it. He puts in another.
She swallows it. Over the lake
two swallows whim, juke, jink,
and when one snatches
an insect they both whirl up
and exult. He is swollen
not with ichor but with blood.
She takes him and sucks him
more swollen. He kneels, open
the dark vertical smile
linking heaven with the underneath
and licks her smoothest flesh more smooth.
On top of the rock they join.
Somewhere a frog moans, a crow screams.
The hair on their bodies
startles up. They cry
in the tongue of the last gods,
who refused to go,
chose death, and shuddered
in joy and shattered pieces,
bequeathing their cries
into the human mouth.
Now in the lake
two faces float, looking up
at a great maternal pine whose branches
open in all directions
explaining everything.

Comments

[fly-nimue-fly.livejournal.com]

oh my god! i LOVE this!!!! where did you first read it???

[laughingbee.livejournal.com]

I know I LOVe it TOO(ahem obviously). I've read it over a Fazillion Times. A friend Sent it to me. Its SO Wondrous.

[antsswarm.livejournal.com]

This poem is very beautiful. I love how it finishes.

[laughingbee.livejournal.com]

Me too,
Thats my Favourite part though

"the tongue of the last gods,
who refused to go,
chose death, and shuddered
in joy "

[sordinosongs.livejournal.com]

..!....this poem left me speechless for a few seconds. I'm definitely going to read some more of this poet........

[laughingbee.livejournal.com]

I felt the same way when i first read it. and then i proceeded to read it over and over. Read 'Oatmeal'by him,Its Really amusing.