STRAIGHT-LEG WONDERS

there's no doubt about it ... she's listening to the good ... or more likely to the goddess ... she lying on her back the goddess lazy deliberate floating up out of her pulling her up as she leaves ... or she sitting up and looking down arguing shouting waiting listening to the goddess localized hammering to get out ... or lounging by the side of the pool under the palms she complaining ... how long will you do this to me before I run out of breath ... even as preoccupied she makes it so but doesn't see it so ... the colors are brighter the skin smoother the water green-diamonized ... all because of this conversation whose tone says no but whose only word is yes ... her syllables are all vowels but she concludes with a guttural consonant an ah as if I told you so and ends with a D to shut duh door ... now in the rest to follow ... now that we know cigarettes are no good ... we ponder twice ... once up north and once down south ... on two-moon planets do all the women have three breasts ... in a world without an ocean would Venus still rise out of the seashell bringing it herself as she does ... the shell and the clear water with it