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FROM Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems (1991) Despite the Plainness of the Day Despite the plainness of the day, like all other days: the simple sun, the ordinary wind, the usual trees and the expected buildings, my cock in you as I move back and forth in happiness makes of the plain day its own festive occasion. Orgasm It is the mind experiencing its pleasure, its own flood, and as the flood recedes leaves me calm and level as the Midwest plains, fertile yet still. I rise from this calm slowly, the way brush grows up silently on the plains, where no eyes come upon it. From brush, tall foliage under a permissivesky. This is how I love my mind. I walk with it, head held erect, and I look at others thinking and hoping, so that we may put our heads together and hear each other's high, keen note of pleasure in the self, life singing to life, more beautiful even than a single mind. 165 ...

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