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Dorothy Porter

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After the Cleopatra exhibition, British Museum

Is it the bite
of a sighing crocodile?

All your voluptuous
bleeding incense
come at once?

I have traveled its Silk Road
with my curtains drawn,
hearing
its lurching mirages
shiver among the stones
and nettles
of its gorgeous desert.

Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Porter

(Australië, 1954 - 2008)

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After the Cleopatra exhibition, British Museum

Is it the bite
of a sighing crocodile?

All your voluptuous
bleeding incense
come at once?

I have traveled its Silk Road
with my curtains drawn,
hearing
its lurching mirages
shiver among the stones
and nettles
of its gorgeous desert.

PLEASURE

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