WORLD VOICES

WINTER TREES AND OTHER POEMS
  BY WILLIAM ZANDER


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About the Author
Mammals
Truth
The Christmas Journey
Silence
Passed My Hearing Test
Wetland
Quis Est?
From a Bestiary
Autumn
Two Sonnets for Alex
Hamlet Contemplates the
   Skull of Gabriel Edmund,
   Recently Born

Seeing My Son
Holding
Sailing to Kansas
Winter Trees

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The Literary Explorer
Writers on the Job
Books Forgotten
Thomas E. Kennedy
Walter Cummins
Web Del Sol



From a Bestiary
continued

                        II.
CUNT is a kind of mollusk, which is found,
Not in a shell, but in a grassy mound;
Nor must it live in water, like an oyster,
For in itself it maketh its own moisture.
Unlike the Cock, none other hath its name,
And so it serveth ill the punster's game;
Its origins I know not, I admit;
St. Isidore doth not go into it.
But I think its devilish cunning is the source,
For it was put on earth to cause remorse.
Though it hath no shell that closeth with a snap,
Physiologus says 'tis still a trap:
Like Whale, that lureth prey with its sweet breath,
It smelleth good, and lureth Cock to death;
For of all the holes there are that Cock might enter,
Cunt is the hole of holes, the epicenter.

And thus with thee, O Man! Thou art sucked in,
Longing to know what treasures lie within;
The outer world will not suffice for thee;
Thou strugglest long, as if to plumb the sea:
Then thinking to rest upon some grassy knoll,
There all the time, beneath you, gapes the hole.