Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Doyna Airs



















French Gypsies, Yale Joel


In mitten drinnen...

of Rilke's ode to orphean praise,
I felt langour and a pall of a doyna's haze.
ever trembling, ever groining scurvy malaise,
but doyna is mercurial flirting with praise,
a sultry dance, a pulsing pelvic haze.
if a mitzve tantz knew of gypsy ways,
threw away the yoke with passion and play,
new couplings and cleavage would burn
and then fade.

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