VERSE

...JAMES FINN COTTER "THE BERTH OF VENUS" Of a time, of a place, naked, awakened from the night of the sea, where you stand, bodybright, on a scallop of light, where the rays of the sun tip open the day, where you come, onlyone, to the lips of the sand, of a place, of a time, when, freed from the sea, in the fissure of dawn you step to the shore, nude, renewed in the flowering wind, hair afloat in your hand- when you come, onlyone, on the shell of the sun, your eyes lift up the sky, your thighs open the land...