Poetry is Sexy!
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July 22,
2005
Don’t believe me? Read on….
THE CINNAMON PEELER -- Michael Ondaatje
If I were a cinnamon peeler
I would ride your bed
and leave the yellow bark dust
on your pillow.
Your breasts and shoulders would reek
you could never walk through markets
without the profession of my fingers
floating over you. The blind would
stumble certain of whom they approached
though you might bathe
under rain gutters, monsoon.
Here on the upper thigh
at this smooth pasture
neighbor to your hair
or the crease
that cuts your back. This ankle.
You will be known among strangers
as the cinnamon peeler's wife.
I could hardly glance at you
before marriage
never touch you
-- your keen nosed mother, your rough brothers.
I buried my hands
in saffron, disguised them
over smoking tar,
helped the honey gatherers...
When we swam once
I touched you in water
and our bodies remained free,
you could hold me and be blind of smell.
You climbed the bank and said
this is how you touch other women
the grasscutter's wife, the lime burner's daughter.
And you searched your arms
for the missing perfume.
and knew
what good is it
to be the lime burner's daughter
left with no trace
as if not spoken to in an act of love
as if wounded without the pleasure of scar.
You touched
your belly to my hands
in the dry air and said
I am the cinnamon
peeler's wife. Smell me.
***Special Thanks***
Yelomonkey originally emailed me this poem. Proof that sensuous man and deviant kinkster can and often do inhabit the same body!
Puzzler565 was so moved by this poem that he bought me (and himself) the book! Introducing this gentleman to the joy of phone sex and the occasional wicked fantasy has been my pleasure and my honor.
Chimmy Chunga, beloved and favored slave, indulges my desires in innumerable ways, not the least of which is reading book and movie reviews to me.
Gruelsicle is one of the smartest guys on the planet. Erudition and perversity of the highest caliber! If I could grow a dick, I would fuck his brain!
AvonBard, who shares my love of poetry and the written word, has bought me many books, as he knows this is my secret fetish.
Michael Ondaatje is the author of many
books, including THE ENGLISH PATIENT, upon which the movie of the same name is based. And while I’ve never had phone sex with him, I am tempted to fuck myself with his books!
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