Sunrise (1927)

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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)


The fantasy of sin, hedonism, seduction
is never nearer
than when a snaky vamp gyrates wildly
glistening in the moonlight
held in your arms above you
inches from your jugular

Your troubled wife weeps
in a country cottage nearby, but at the moment
you don't care

because when the aggressive
woman from the city
kisses you, you swoon like a woman,
feel sleek and beautiful
for the first time

enraptured by your submission;
empowered by the sinister eroticism
of your own weakness;
that, you never knew.
But now, you know--your role
is to adore the bobbed-hair
goddess, at any cost.

Too, the city itself tempts you--
streetcars, traffic, searchlights,
nights awash in colored neon,
sophisticated flappers with dark lips and
kohl lids, artists, dance halls bobbing with
ecstatic jazz, impossibly evil,
an orgy of sound and flesh
anonymous and stylish.


But then again, love never seemed so real
as the earth under you nails that nourishes the seeds
and feeds you; the sunshine yellow of an innocent's hair;
sharing simple joys and memories with
someone trusting and open, entrusted
to your care--


and so you come back
to earth

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"Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans"
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