Classic Poem

The delicate lepidopteran tongue
Uncurls
Invades, insinuous penetrant,
Through vulnerable whorls
The cloven stigma of that fluctuant
That palpable among
Impalpable soft flowers, sea
Anemone
Whose labial perianth
Closes.

Neither amaranth
Nor Venus-roses
Themselves within themselves that sheathe
The velvet anther
Queens who feel in their embraces breathe
The silken belly of the languid panther
Thus —

No, nor convolvulus
That under
Gradual fingers of the evening yields.

Deep down beneath the ocean summer thunder
Thrills without sound in the slow muculent fields
The trembling tentacles of the voluptuous