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Women Like You (model poem of same name, by Michael Ondaatje)
by Julie Adams
they do not sit
these ladies of the island
do not give us
a moment of rest
Carnival is alive in them, in you
they dance with all
take the hard
rum as lover.
Women like you
make men eager as puppies
who came here
out of the beach land
climbed this city
to adore the pulse
and with the energy of the air
behind them
stirred a rhythm
whose motive was perfect release
wanting these curves of women
to wander and coil
round me
04/20/2003 Author's Note: Modeled after Michael Ondaatje's poem (see his autobio: Running With the Family)
Posted on 04/20/2003
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