Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Kneeling figure Taken from Epic Gilgamesh



So  Endokin
was tamed through a
 skilled harlot named Shazah
who emerged from a Babylonian
  Temple in the city and went out onto  the
    wild mountainside and made love with him
for seven days and nights in a cave among
the sheep and Endokin                          who
         was more animal than                              man                      
 felt soft perfumed                                      skin for
             the  first time against his                              own rough hide               
              and tasted sweet fruits                                  and refined sugars
                       from the Babylonian city he                            followed Shazah back
                                       between the dry deserted canyons                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
back to the gardened walls of the city 
                     where the bustling heat of 
                         strangers set him on edge  
and it was only her gentle humming in his ear
that stopped him from striking out back to the windy
mountainside among the dusty goats and scrub.

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