Deflowering
Narrated by Bill Wolak
New Jersey
DEFLOWERING
Life deflowers itself
petal by petal
One by one the leaves
fall away
like lovers from each other
Pistils and stamens
reveal themselves
to each other
And the seeds fall too and all begins again
Ah what’s to be done
with these leaves these seeds
still falling and falling
what to be done
with these fronds still falling
into the dark night of dying
where still stir
the still dumb birds
of our desiring
Even as now
under the dark trees
where the crickets are
suddenly she stops laughing
puts his hands
upon her breasts