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Erotic Tanka
by James Tipton
(01/14/09)
I used up this whole life
waiting for her to arrive
and now there is nothing left
but her presence here
in a thousand poems.
Watching her sensuous hand
reach for a box of brown rice,
I push the grocery cart closer.
It's time I got really serious
about what I eat.
Tucking his love note
into her luggage
beneath her stack of cotton panties
he discovers black silk
and a pack of condoms.
Just as Lady Godiva rode naked
to turn her husband Leofric
toward the religious life,
your young body in the old barn
taught me everything I know.
©2009 by James Tipton
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Comments
James Tipton lives in the tropical mountains of southern Mexico,
where he writes poetry, short stories, poems, articles, and reviews.
His books of poetry include,
Letters from a Stranger
(with a Foreword by Isabel Allende), which won the Colorado Book Award,
as well as the recently published collection of haiku, Proposing to the
Woman in the Rear View Mirror (www.modernenglishtankapress.com), and
the just released Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village
(Ediciones del Lago, spiritofmexico@yahoo.com)-- a collection of very short
poems about Mexico and Latin America, many of them erotic. Some of the tanka
above will be included in All the Horses of Heaven,
to be published in February (www.modernenglishtankapress.com).
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