Phallus

This was the gods’ god,

The leashed divinity,

Divine divining rod

And Me within the me.

By mindlight tower and tree

Its shadow on the ground

Throw, and in darkness she

Whose weapon is her wound

Fends off the knife, the sword,

The Tiger and the Snake;

It stalks the virgin’s bed

And bites her wide awake.

Her Bab-el-Mandeb waits

Her Red Sea gate of tears:

The blood-sponge god dilates,

His rigid pomp appears;

Sets in the toothless mouth

A tongue of prophecy.

It speaks in naked Truth

Indifference for me

Love, a romantic slime

That lubricates his way

Against the stream of Time.

And though I win the day

His garrisons deep down

Ignore my victory,

Abandon this doomed town,

Crawl through a sewer and flee.

A certain triumph, of course,

Bribes me with brief joy:

Stiffly my Wooden Horse

Receive into your Troy.

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• Reproof: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett by Tobias Smollett
• Tobias Smollett – Tobias Smollett by Tobias Smollett
• Love Elegy (in imitation of Tibullus) by Tobias Smollett by Tobias Smollett
• “Let the nymph still avoid and be deaf to the swain” by Tobias Smollett by Tobias Smollett
• To Independence by Tobias Smollett by Tobias Smollett
• “From the man whom I love, though my heart I disguise,” by Tobias Smollett by Tobias Smollett
• “Come listen, ye students of every degree” by Tobias Smollett by Tobias Smollett
• Blue-Eyed Ann by Tobias Smollett by Tobias Smollett
• Advice: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett by Tobias Smollett
• You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• What Is Woman But A Song! by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• The Squirrel by Todd H. C. Fischer by Poetry In English
• The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole by Poetry In English
• The moon at noon by Tom Mukasa by Poetry In English
• The Leather Suitcase by Tom Berman by Poetry In English
• The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English
• The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune by Poetry In English

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