Animal Sensation
Is it an animal sensation that I feel
when your teeth click softly against mine?
or my satisfied gaze begins to pierce
more deeply than a thrusting talon?
Is it relief that in my laughing swells
while viewing from so close your skin?
or an instinct too terrified to scream
foul curses in the middle of our prayer?
Or do you hear my ancient scars crying out:
waiting to be kissed?
November 10th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Original version: http://danweasel.com/archives/2006/01/24/animal-satisfaction/
November 11th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Glad to see that you are back up. Your new format is lot easier on my eyes. But having comments open on a good poem is a bit of iffy proposition in my humble opinion. It reminds me of what you wrote in Four Girls in Starbucks Discussing Hamlet….
crest to my ears carrying the dead wood.
To analyze exactly the prince’s immorality
seems anemic in the face of his musings on mortality,
Comments on good poem must necessarily be anemic don’t you think? If I were to discuses one of your better poems (this being one of them by the way) it would take me a good deal more space then can be decently used in a comment section on a blog.
Speaking of which, I have a selfish request…
Could you move “The voices in my head” and “All the great men die” to your new format? The links to those poems on your old site are so screwed up as to be unreadable. Besides, I would rather read them in your new format.
As a matter of fact, it is a shame that the links to all the poems on your old site are screwed up. I suppose it is too much to hope that there is an easy fix?
November 11th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
My idea forward at this point is to bring stuff over as I revise it. That said, I’ll take a look at those two in particular for you. What’s wrong with links on the old site, though? I want that information available if at all possible, so please let me know what I can do to help.
November 11th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Check this out..
In Firefox the comments are superimposed over the poem. Not only that, but they don’t even seem to be comments for that poem. Instead they are your most recent comments on racism in Texas and whatnot.
P.S would please delete my first comment?
I am kind of confused as to how it even got posted. I thought I put it up there, thought better of it, and replaced it with my second comment.
Oh well, my excuse is that I am still tired from working the overtime last night….
November 11th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Odd that I’m not having any issues in Firefox. I’ll see about moving the old site to this new theme though. That ought to make things better.
November 11th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
You fixed the problem for me with the theme change.
I found the problem in both Opera and Firefox before you made the change though. But it was only a problem if you tried to go directly to a particular poem.
Anyway, now that you have changed the theme I can link directly to a poem without any problems.
Thanks.
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