Finding Their Way



at the business end of the millenium we fracture one
tradition after another, parallax splits the seam
and blears the known into unrecognition,

wet cement through bottle necks
never nevers become subcultured liner notes,
nuns sit beside snot punks on the uptown loop,

men smitten with men laid path
for women to walk hand in hand, three
four at once without fear of legislative exile

genders flip flopped, parents forgot children
at the curb, firecrackers became pipe bombs,
Red Square invited star spangled hamburgers

invention displaced through communicado
lifestyles sidestep the force of evolution
and an unsung physiology finds it's way around

the slender role of woman forms, lineage
without witness of the millions, self made 
into the animal of David, the equine attributes

of sinew and beautiful strength all French curved, 
as if the hourglass went Byzantine and granite,
humanitiy's vangard invention of itself walks the earth...

at first with little admiration, they came
and went beneath the quill of critique, of fear,
but brave others dreamt and hunted this addictive power,

to sift through the common, the everyday, the force formed,
you yourself can find these ladies making room
for more of their own kind, the tactile alloy

of strength and seduction flourishing late
it has never been. anthropological, widened eyes
the new tablet of history carves she with muscularity



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