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POEMS HAVE NO SEX ORGANS – HOSHANG MERCHANT by Pratibha Nandakumar

Hoshang Merchant said
Poems have no sex organs
and then went on to declare he is spiritual.
It was just yesterday that I was reading
Mahadevi describe her entire body a yoni
and her soul, just a fortress stiff.
The Shaakinis of the after-world
torment you before crossing over,
the dues must be paid in full.
When Isis the great bird, was in a dilemma
whether to make love or eat
the great manliness of the dead Osiris,
lust won, finally and Horus was born.
My dear Hoshang, poems are the sex organs.

 

PRATIBHA NANDAKUMAR