Kama Sutra Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

Kama Sutra



In Robert Graves' 'Sea Side',
a foreground beast with two backs,
that he had in spyght
in the sandhills,
had him seeing distant duplexes
in a sexual light.

My own house and a neighbour's
share a side.
I now see them
in a Gravesian light.

But now that each ones other side
is a back,
what the name
for what were their backs?

If 'soles',
their fronts could be 'crowns';
if 'crowns',
their fronts 'soles'.

The front of the one
could be its sole;
the front of the other
its crown.
The back of the one
with the sole at the front
could be its crown;
the back of the other
its sole.

Friday, October 27, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: house,name,poem,sex
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
spyght: combo of 'spy' and 'sight'

Sea Side
Into a gentle wildness and confusion,
Of here and there, of one and everyone,
Of windy sandhills by an unkempt sea,
Came two and two in search of symmetry,
Found symmetry of two in sea and sand,
In left foot, right foot, left hand and right hand.

The beast with two backs is a single beast,
Yet by his love of singleness increased
To two and two and two and two again,
Until, instead of sandhills, see, a plain
Patterned in two and two, by two and two—
And the sea parts in horror at a view
Of rows of houses coupling, back to back,
While love smokes from their common chimney-stack
With two-four-eight-sixteenish single same
Re-registration of the duple name.
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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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