Sharon Morris
Artemis at Ephesus 
Sharon Morris reading Artemis at Ephesus 
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She beckons with a saint’s open palms,
Artemis from Ephesus, offering
her multiple breasts like a clutch of eggs.
A fecundity of tiny animals breaks out
from inside her body –
dogs with lapping tongues, nervous deer
and docile cows grabble under her skin,
rows of prancing horses charge towards us
(we imagine how their miniature hooves
would hammer us with keen blows)
lions prowl the length of her arms
and there are bees settled as if sitting on honey.
So you lie, with your arm around a leopard,
limp as a kitten in your grasp,
a stag guarding your lair
and I lie at your left side, content.
But a wild dog persists in you,
the dog that sees blindly with its nose.
Guide me, in this half-known world.
Ravening, I will follow the scent.
Born in Wales, Sharon Morris studied fine art at the Slade School where she currently teaches. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales and Poetry London, and the Poetry School anthology Tying the Song (2000). False Spring, her first collection, will be published by Enitharmon in 2007.
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