I was visiting
                           the Mother of Wolves
                                                                in her firelit cave,
Her sons and daughters tugging
                           and wrestling around,
                                                                but the higher penis
Today, was a quietly spoken
                           Victorian scientist
                                                                practising spiritualism
With only three ghosts,
                           he took me elsewhere, to
                                                                Dr. Jekyll’s laboratory
Where intercourse was not only
                           imminent but eminent too,
                                                                and immanent: the cave
Just would not do;
                           and I felt an invisible flow up
                                                                and around my high penis
And the Lady Doctor felt it too,
                           it was like the pressure of light,
                                                                like the chamber
Of a goldleaf electroscope,
                           crura of the charged instrument
                                                                parting legs;
Science was OK as a direct allegory
                           of the lower penis, rising;
                                                                the psychic penis rolling
Clouds of the seminal ectoplasm
                           risen for consultation,
                                                                this was high colloquy
But it was still penis, stiff sage,
                           winking to his two companions, whispering
                                                                of doorlocks
Oily with harmonious toil, true science;
                           practising spiritualism
                                                                with only one ghost.

 

 

 

 

PETER REDGROVE died in June 2003 from diabetic related kidney failure. He was 71 years old. His collection Sheen appeared from Stride in autumn 2003.


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