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Poets Corner
This life's carnal wallow - quicksand hotbed of my rankness
Yet a haunting beauty condescends to lie with me there
In love's blooming play a frank native to my need
Perennial purity ceded in the prostitution of her graciousness
My shameful self favoured by her sacrifice
My dark desires with devotion's radiance requited
Lonesome longing initiated to intimate warmth
Cruel confusion's coming home so softly addressed
Such lostness found by compassion's courtesan
She and I in faith, alone at last
Evocative bouquet of that candid company - Na man da bu
Goodness mothering my selfsame son
(© Copyright Gregg Heathcote, 12 March 1995)