Miguel Ajeno's Poetry - On a Painting by Leonel Gngora

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On a Painting by Leonel Góngora

Standing nude but for a garter
body of a serpent, contortionist,
hand posed impossibly
over her breast
long red-nailed fingers
semaphoring what?
Her thumbnail balances the cherry
of carnal knowledge
this red-haired temptress
eyes wide apart.

But I can never fuck her
for her legs are one united leg.
I can only lick that fruit
to flavour my saliva
with enslavement
as she slides across the blue desert
of my dreams.

(note: The painting is entitled By the Lowest-Paid Member of the Art Department. Acrylic on paper, it is 5 feet high by 3 feet wide, and is in The Oakleigh Collection in America. Surreal circumstances prevent us from showing an image alongside Ajeno's poem, but www.figurativeexpressionism.com/gongora.htm will take you to the painting.See Other Materials for information about the painter Leonel Góngora.)

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