A Curious Secret Poem by Justine Tennant

When I said that I read

Vita Sackville-West

He didn't get it

When I said I had a yen

To visit Llangollen

and bask in the past

of those infamous ladies

He still didn't get it

When I wrote I was smote

in a Sapphic type verse

He just didn't get it

I even told him of my passion

for Balthus' 'Guitar Lesson'

yet he still didn't get it!

So while we watched

'Gazon Maudit'

and he sat there

obliviously

I asked him to join us

Now he gets it!



© Justine Tennant 2004