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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 109. Two from Issue No. 8 of "Manroot" magazine
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Casseopeia Returns, Guided by the Twins
Even as you are, I am
riding, ridden
like you: Come, my Sister!
In white helmets and red sweaters,
in stiff jackets straddling cycles:
gas ignites,
and twin exhausts spin into night!
She hesitates behind
the striding hips in jeans,
with neck curls springing;
enters on great stone stair,
past the pillars’ eyes that watch:
wood doors open to the twin-joined bed,
no ceiling or end wall;
but stars are magnified beyond
in iris blue,
then doubled,
tripled!
. It is the most intense blue .
She bares her long neck (pride returning, flushes), lets her dress down:
. lies beside them .
(effortless this part, at last undone)
: and drums, a drum is beating
red and freely
—Anna Jago, [i]
1973
from Woman Gardener: A Hymn of Praise
X.
Thus it is. Joanna
woman gardener.
Sculptured. The
shorn lamb:
clean as a rose-bud
in morning.
Your face takes praise.
The bush. You’re still leaning over it,
kneeling,
madonna of the morning
with powerful hands
and strong profile.
You prove:
In the last coals left the heart alive
(this dawn, or the next one)
I shall bank back toward Lesbos with love.
—Lynn Strongin, [ii]
1970
[i] “Cassiopeia Returns” Anna Jago, reprinted in issue No. 8 of Manroot magazine [Paul Mariah, Editor] (Berkeley 1973), p. 9
[ii] “from Woman Gardener” Lynn Strongin, reprinted in issue No. 8 of Manroot magazine [Paul Mariah, Editor] (Berkeley 1973), p. 40. This poem is noted as being from Brick Red Human, and originally composed on June 23, 1970, in Carmel Valley, California
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