In the village guesthouse it fills the room it stands in, a statement of human belief in idyllic desire. Curlicued rills of wrought iron are festooned with lace mosquito net thrown back from its dark, welcoming cave where the conjunction of improbabilities occurs - a boy, knowing cows and goats, is to be patient, tender; a girl, a childbirth witness, is to be responsive, passionate. From this seedbed, despite withered harvests, children dead of malaria, on sheets and pillows strewn with dainty confetti of embroidered flowers, belief would have desire sprout itself out of spit and semen, flourish taller than stunted tapioca and corn from the same soil. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOAL by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IMPELLED by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 11 by JAMES JOYCE THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS by EDWIN MARKHAM THE SPARROW HARK IN THE RAIN (ALEXANDER STEPHENS HEARS NEWS) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |