Annette Vallon, Romantic Poetry and Heterosexuality

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“And ’tis my faith that every flower

 Enjoys the air it breathes.”

~ William Wordsworth, “Lines Written in Early Spring”

We really do need less of faith and more

Of fancy.  Poems such as that one by

This man (who writes much twiddling bilge) abhor

And stick to facts instead.  Don’t tell the lie

That Nature is neat innocence and man

Is separate evil.  These are ever one.

If not, then their continuum will span

All evils.  Hopping birds find hopping fun

In chomping wriggling worms and wings.  Holy (?)

The plan of Nature . . . “pleasant thoughts” and such

Amid these meals, gorging roly poly . . .

Is not poetic.  He is out of touch.

  What man has made of woman, if the chance

    Occurs, is bastard past her underpants.

~ Phillip Whidden