{"id":385,"date":"2009-10-29T21:56:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T02:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davious.org\/now\/?p=385"},"modified":"2024-12-19T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:55:38","slug":"the-erotic-poetry-of-david-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/2009\/10\/the-erotic-poetry-of-david-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Erotic Poetry of David Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">All is peaceful in your bed\nAs you lay there sitting\nwith a comforter in your lap\nand a bevy of pillows up your back,\nwreathing round your head\n\nSweet visions you entice\nWearing nothing\n\u2019cept a red handkerchief\nwhose nettled florals shade your eyes\nand invite in a garden\nDream of bright daylight\n\nMy tender lips do gently suck, once each\nthe gravity side of heaving breast, underneath\nand wander down circuitously\nin the lazy business of a bee\nfrantically, humbly, bumbly, dallying\n\nThen that sweet\u2013smelling bud is joyfully discovered\nUpon which our bee gingerly endeavors\nonto sacred ground\nExploring about for what there is to take\nAs legs press deeply into petal\u2019s folds\nIn response to his cantankerous march\nOur flower unveils herself in an expansive sigh\n\nNow the stamen is found\nand only nectar is wanted\nOh, such a busy bee\nso adamant about it\nAs flower trembles this way and that\nSupporting the little fellow\n\nAt long last the pollen is taken up\nThe flower is conscious of the loss\nIn remembrance of such ruddy gifts\nThe bee gathers every last bit\nAnd gently flies away\n\nNow the gardener saunters in\nFor our flower must be parched\nwell, we\u2019ll drown her anyway\nIt's so steamy at midday\nin burning summer\n\nThe hose has been lying out in the sun\nall this time\nThough cold water runs from its base\nit will come out hot\n\nCareless lobs of water\nThrash, thrash, in and out of the petals\nThere, finally, the hose is fixed\nOh, but the constant undulating pressure\nHas the gardener gone negligent?\n\nFor a span of unendurable length, our fragile flower\nheld down under violent, heedless protuberance\nshuddering in its overwhelming strength\nAnd suddenly,\nwater gone;\npetals thoroughly soaked\n\nSo much abuse for so innocent a flower\nand nowhere to go for safety\nFor all the bittersweet torments\nshe finds herself handled safely\nbetter off, even<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All is peaceful in your bed As you lay there sitting with a comforter in your lap and a bevy of pillows up your back, wreathing round your head Sweet visions you entice Wearing nothing \u2019cept a red handkerchief whose nettled florals shade your eyes and invite in a garden Dream of bright daylight My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-mead-book-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3678,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davious.org\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}