Entasis
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The curve of beauty comes more often than
The strictness of the straightness made by hands.
In fact Greek pillars made by thinking man
Require a curve in stiffness. Manhood stands
Erect and makes itself perfection through
The use of shapes not square and flat. The swerves
Of hip and bicep, shoulder, thigh hold true.
Man’s hardened straightness is constrained in curves.
The glans that tops the malest post swells shaped
With no rigidity except the length
That leads to flaring crown when lust escaped
Through tightness in the thrust and thrill of strength.
No part of masculinity is square.
No. Maleness is a taut and bent affair.
~ Phillip Whidden