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January 31, 2010

On berries and bellies

Filed under: mick raubenheimer, poetry — ABRAXAS @ 5:37 pm

The very first time I thought I had sex
I had no knowledge of the word
nor its roaring golds of heat
nor its aqueatic shades of
after-ripple..

I knew only
some abstract scent
of stink-gogga
- a burst which
dismayed my bumble-berried mouth -
I had lifted her into the tree
awkward,
desperately swooned her into secret branches
dripping
with shiny blacks
and lustrous purple

Snorting and violently shaking my
head I
realised
the stink-gogga had sacrificed itself
to alarm my senses to her naked belly

She too had a belly-button
gentler
it soft-sloped inward

pretty complement to my gently
vulgar one, jutting out shily and
proud all at once

We once, standing tall and awkward
in a miniature forest of grass
me bow-legged, her flushed on tip-toe
fit them into tickling couplet
mine in hers
bellies blushing with foreign hungers

That night strange colours kept peaced sleep at bay,
‘One day’, they whispered in
queer scapes and boiling shades,
‘You will taste the violence of magic..’

5 Responses to “On berries and bellies”

  1. femi leadbelly Says:

    falling from
    them
    stars
    on
    berries
    and
    bellies

  2. mick Says:

    Ta Femi! Tis, quite literally, an awkward poemlit - shaggy in structure, hiccuping in ridming, buts it involves four and five key momentings in my life, ands. ANDS - Me belly-button is inscribed with a stylized star… in-crease-ed starriness, as such. Ahem. So Ta!

  3. femi leadbelly Says:

    back ends of two poems
    of the same nat’a.
    truth is
    kaganof is watching..
    ta..

  4. mick Says:

    yips

  5. afrikaner Says:

    jou tottie brul altyd mick, for sure

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