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The birth of sensuality at the shore

A chapter in the book Carolina Pastorals

Outer Banks pt.2: Venus

by estory

Venus was born here,
stepping out of the sea
and into the air,
an embodied beauty

Imitating art
with perfections of limb,
curves of hips and breast,
smoothness of form

Giving shape to the hand
grasping an hourglass.
A backward look.
The stuff of myth and legend.





How many times have we seen that beautiful woman coming out of the water at the beach and fallen in love? But what exactly is in that moment of seduction? What came first, the dream of the hand, or the figure filling it? What is it that we are falling in love with? There is so much going on in that moment, underneath the surface. But I wanted to capture the mysteriousness of it all, the undercurrent of forces that are beyond us, moving us in the life we are living. The form is roughly hewn quatrains in a subtle off rhyme, with subtle echoing effects. estory
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