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Arnie Sabatelli's avatar

Lovely. Erotic and “explicit” even--but so much more than that...and mostly a layering of metaphor, simile, fresh and original language...in short everything that makes poetry provoke emotion. I think Sharon Olds learned a lot from Rich in her book The Gold Cell, or maybe she was simply discovering similar territory--that evoked by writers like Ninn and so many others.

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Patris's avatar

Sensuality and poetry are one and the same, whatever the topic I think. Nature, war, life and death, but love - even unsentimentalized (maybe especially that), well, yes.

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Sam Lewis's avatar

Yes and yes. I said yes.

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Charles Taylor's avatar

Lovely.

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Michael Cord's avatar

(so far) no comments?!...too intimate for words?

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Lucy Shoup's avatar

Such a wonderful poem. There isn't much to be said in the poem but it still communicates so much! The imagery is rich and original. I can't say enough how much I enjoyed reading this beautifully sensual poem.

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David Picariello's avatar

Beautifull verse for beatific moments. Dave

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BB Borne's avatar

Powerful wonderment

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Patricia B MSW  MA's avatar

Oh the touch of the fern frond. Words , image, delicate beyond fingers.

Read, before seeing title or author I knew it was woman to woman. Does that matter to the sensibility

sensual beyond sexuall of the poem? No.

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