Paleolithic Offering

She tilts her head
and eyes out of sight.

She draws her heels
to her buttocks.

She spreads her thighs
to triangulate entry.

He firmly approaches –
her eyes roll and peek.

The Rainbow

Before the practice of copulation,
rains fell on the vulva
and soaked into the womb.

If fertile, a snake rose
from the earth, arced through the sky,
and shed its multi-colored skins.

Sex and Violence

When a bull’s in heat
or mounting a cow, then strike,
strike both, dissect, eat,
then propitiate with paint
or a chorus of carvings.

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