Gordon Wharton
Calypso
My paranymph wore the cave-mouth smooth
toing and froing at your beck and call:
retsina, pitta, skewered lamb,
and tarama in season (my fished-out waters
yielding all they could). The tender
of my own sweet self besides - longevity
on a plate, the colour of creamed rice.
While you, until the telegram, did little
but mope and maunder all day,
unstrung and dewy-eyed
over that bouzouki-string of foam,
ravelling and unravelling
your wet dream of a constant wife.
Rumour-mongers at the edge of sleep
tell me you are snug, Odysseus,
stripped ballock-naked under olive-leaves
like nothing so much as a fresh brand
slow-kindling in an ash-heap.
Feel me now beneath your duvet, Subtle One,
the dream-masseuse breathing on your spark,
grazing your thighs like furious muslin.
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