If a woman stands upright
she is a violent, rotating column of air.
She is a cumulonimbus cloud.
She forms the base of an elastic muscular canal.
If a woman stands upright
she swallows huge amounts of water several times a day.
Takes form as a huge bladder
whose face is all mouth.
She will offend a god by killing his cattle
with a violent, rotating column of air
in which the walls self-lubricate.
They are the narrow end that touch the earth.
They are encircled by a cloud of debris.

If a woman stands upright
during sexual arousal
she expands in both length and width
before belching everything back out again.
If a woman stands upright
during birth to offspring
she is in contact with the surface of the earth
and its soft elastic folds of mucous membrane skin.
If a woman stands upright
during birth to offspring
she creates many whirlpools
stirring up the mud at the bottom of the ocean
and hardening it with her breath.

05/29/2009

Author's Note: collage poem

Posted on 05/29/2009
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