Three Aspects of Desire
by
F.J.
Bergmann
I. The Oscar Meyer
Weinermobile:
I incorporate the desires of the flesh, in all its senses.
No picnic or parade is complete without me.
See! I am shaped and coloured like a penis grown monstrously
large, with a pulsating engine and a steering mechanism.
I am the waste parts of animals made savoury
for everyone to want and want and want.
Devour me! Eat me!
II. The cloisonné Chinese
horse:
I embody desire as well, but I serve the haunting needs of the
spirit.
Arabesques of coloured love overlie the metal of the soul,
which gleams through the glossy enamel in recurved ripples of
gold,
like fissures in rock showing the magma underneath,
like a shuddering awareness of divine intervention.
III. The soapstone coyote:
I am the trickster, the messenger, the slippery one.
I carry the purloined desires you let remain unvoiced,
the unsent letter you forgot to burn and ransacked the house for.
I race under snow-heavy boughs and across the frozen, wasted
fields
and cross the boundary between this world and the next.
I make sure you get what you thought you wanted.
I can talk to gods you would not dare to name.
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