Path of Beauty includes 8 old love poems (9 if you count the one on the back cover) and 12 new ones. Of the 8 (9) old poems, 3 are erotic in tone.
I'm thinking about my audience ... are they going to enjoy that? Should I pull those poems out and replace them with others?
The devil in words
If the frogs court with bleeps,
and the birds neck
one another,
opening wide
their feathered arms -
if they're free
to compose
their rapture,
and mating beetles fly
through the air
close by our heads,
and the butterflies
dot paths and grass,
wings shivering in ecstasy -
why, if all this is SO normal, why
should WE not speak
the language
of love?
Why are words taken as obscene, intrusive,
when love
is common -
pure music, movement
and creative
energy?
What is it that puts the devil
into
words?
- Silke Heiss, 29th January 2019
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| Back cover. Portrait of Norman by Michael Chomse |
