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Poems

Love-making in Water

15 August 2013

1:00 PM

15 August 2013

1:00 PM

Seals — well, they rhyme with steel — can stand the cold.
And they can even dive and mate at once.
They hold their breath; and one knows how to fold
his vulnerable parts into the other’s.
Even virgin seals don’t need experience
to do this properly so no one smothers.




We need warm waters — and we might be coy,
but sirens can undo our modesty
striding across the liquid corduroy.

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