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Vitruvian Woman
For Laura
A Poem for Halloween
Svelte limbs, aquiline and flow, her enjambment;
The whole pelvic girdle hypnotically balances,
Famously compared to a serpent which dances,
And which has all full-blooded heterosexual males entranced…!
And, there you have it! The Feminists declare,
“No more male gazing here!”
Where are we? How did we get here?
Whatever happened to coup de foudre, colpo di fulmine ?
It was a Friday night, I had been sitting, drinking with colleagues,
When you entered the public bar dressed in your finery;
The cream- coloured micro-skirt, the flesh coloured tights,
The pliant leather of your black knee high boots!…
Colpo di fulmine!… my ass jumped off the bench, reflexively!
We have known each other now for 25 Halloweens.
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