Robert Hamberger
Men of Sodom
In the Old Vicarage hotel bedroom,
while women and men mix their voices
and laugh in reception, our secret vices
rampage on the sheet, ten feet from
their hearty conversation. By a dim
light we’re conspirators whose hushed faces
watch that panther, passion, lick the traces
of sweat on our skin and let us roam.
Next morning we down a respectable
breakfast, play the More tea vicar routine.
On the lawn outside there’s a babble.
Five mallard drakes, their glossed green
balaclavas, their ridiculous waddle,
rendezvous behind the rhododendron.
Robert Hamberger has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He has published two collections: Warpaint Angel (Blackwater Press, 1997) and The Smug Bridegroom (Five Leaves, 2002), which was recently chosen for the small press Alternative Generation promotion.
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