a Glass Floor Underfoot - 16. the language of beautiful bodies

That language has ever proven elusive; yet it is beautiful still to hear it spoken. This is another highly resonant poem. Thank you. 

On 9/6/2022 at 12:37 PM, Parker Owens said:

That language has ever proven elusive; yet it is beautiful still to hear it spoken. This is another highly resonant poem. Thank you. 

Thank you, Parker. These "Bathhouse" poems of his are equal parts erotic charge and feelings of unworthiness. Therefore, they're sexy and sad -- a combination most especially resonant with members of the LGBT minority, like the poet.

So much great art was squandered on the fields of meaningless "glory" and (French and English) empire expansion during the First World War. No wonder the survivor-artists from this carnage never felt good enough; that's why they called themselves "the lost generation," and did so in tribute to those possibly better than them but in their graves much too early. Jentzsch is one of the fallen