Mounds of Virgins
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem
No matter what the art about Saint Joan
Or any other female saint almost,
Male artists tease out tits. Men almost moan
When showing Saint Teresa. Guys engrossed
With women’s holiness resent the cloth
That hides pudenda, hip and left-hand breast,
Those sinister compartments and the swath
Of linen blocking sight of all the rest
Of sexy bits. The Virgin Mary shows
Some flesh while suckling baby Jesus. She
Looks disconsolate because her clothes
Hide only one chest mound from your look-see.
The men resent that they must stop the brush
From oily capturing her holy tush.
~ Phillip Whidden