PURE GOLD OF INTENSE MANHOOD (1935)Author(s): ANDY CARTERSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 40, No. 2 (FALL 2010), p. 146Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25769582 .

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PURE GOLD OF INTENSE MANHOOD (1935)

this lovely day of softly dripping rain

I offer men

a friendly meeting place

the utter peace of sleeping pigs the light random

syllables of birds

dew-spattered, frondage-green in Georgia

the night is full of pounding

with sexless light red lilacs and Marxist facts

how these working people expect us, moths

were drugged with beauty

for lazy rich people, white flawless things tippin' into Dixie's

for culture, for technique

dear little puppies, I

slept in a basket of squid

pistil swollen, under strange moons

jerking in thralldom of tractor, I renounce scheming

as combines shave prairies a mile wide

minds in the audience smile

and we know why

THE IOWA REVIEW

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