primera antología de la poesía homosexual - Frente de Afirmación ...

While my heart's soft pulse did go,
DEVILS had it in their bands.
Doctors keep it in a row,
Now, on varnished wooden stands:
And 1 really do not know
If it is in different hands.
En su siguiente poema nos ofrece una visión homosexual
asociada a la serpiente:
THE GARDEN OF JANUS
The cloud my bed is tinged
with BLOOD and foam.
The vault yet BLAZES WITH THE SUN
Writhing aboye the West, brave hippodrome
Whose gladiators shock and shun
As the BLUE NIGHT DEVOURS them
crested comb
Of sleep's dead sea
That eats the shores of life, rings round eternity!
So, he is gone whose giant
SWORD SHED FLAME
Into my bowels; my BLOOD'S bewitched;
My brain's afloat with ecstasy of shame.
That tearing pain is gone, enriched
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