He is The Original Man
The man made by God’s own hands
He is Finer, more Tender, Sings better than all the Men I’ve born
He has something from everything everything Divine
He sails across the kitchen like wind
Smiles from across the kitchen like Jesus jumped down the cross
He has something from everything all things fetishcherished by
the Divine
He is gold, or honey, copper, orange? Can be all of ‘em; depending on the sun shining on his hair
He is white, like milk, or the early morning sky in Owen Sound
He’s a thin blade of grass but he, that’s crazy, hugs trees, how can he?
I can’t believe it
Who knows what God’s been feeding him I feed my sons my own blood
I I wish wish to touch touch his touch
I I want want to kiss his his lips
see the inlay of his eyes
feel the thighs
measure the arms
drink the heart
and bite on the fingers
Not really biting; I only want to suck on them
I love love to feel feel the tip tip of his tall fingers
The fingers, I tell you, are slightly- brash-stems of Jasmines
I want want I want want to fall fall and wrap round him
to see how the bones are laid in the flesh
I love to see the bastard shoulders
I want to press my face over the brat navel
Here, today, I announce:
I Refuse To Use My Womb, unless God’s willing to teach me his craft
Look look the Lute’s lying on his knees
Look look the fingers tilt up tilt down tilt over the neck
He’s wearing off-white pants He’s bent over Hair and all
I I need
to know
I need to know just how feminine is his virility
He is the Original Man
The Man made by god’s own hands
He He is the beginning Takes his own path
He will cry again
If he cries again
If he cries again for his star far from here, I pull the moon down from behind the clouds;
He’s been laughing all day yesterday
I’ve had many unfinished businesses in my time, I don’t mind one more, but
I do not wish to walk out of the heaven of his room a NonBeliever
You see, this is not a matter between me and him, rather, the dispute is between me and the God, the Divine Womb.
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Saghi Ghahraman
September 2006, Owen Sound, Ontario