{"id":4921,"date":"2010-05-18T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T15:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2010-05-18T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T15:34:14","slug":"what-a-mouth-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4921","title":{"rendered":"What a mouth will do"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kiss<\/p>\n

the impossible hope that love<\/p>\n

will last. An end to looking<\/p>\n

as if for one glove.<\/p>\n

Swallow the sweet<\/p>\n

lust of fruit—one way a body<\/p>\n

can be pleased.<\/p>\n

Tell others why.<\/p>\n

Tell others nothing.<\/p>\n

Feel the tongue and how<\/p>\n

goodness<\/p>\n

and mercy can flow<\/p>\n

like a river from the north<\/p>\n

or how it can rage as only rage can<\/p>\n

and know there isn’t much to say<\/p>\n

after that.<\/p>\n

“What a mouth will do” by Betsy Johnson-Miller, from Rain When You Want Rain. \u00a9 Mayapple Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

See how much better the poem above is from the one below that appeared a few days later (May 17) also in the Writer’s Almanac.<\/i><\/p>\n

Cean Dubh Deelish<\/b><\/p>\n

Put your head, darling, darling, darling,<\/p>\n

  Your darling black head my heart above; <\/p>\n

Oh, mouth of honey, with the thyme for fragrance, <\/p>\n

  Who, with heart in breast, could deny you love? <\/p>\n

Oh, many and many a young girl for me is pining, <\/p>\n

  Letting her locks of gold to the cold wind free, <\/p>\n

For me, the foremost of our gay young fellows; <\/p>\n

  But I’d leave a hundred, pure love, for thee!<\/p>\n

Then put your head, darling, darling, darling, <\/p>\n

  Your darling black head my heart above; <\/p>\n

Oh, mouth of honey, with the thyme for fragrance, <\/p>\n

  Who, with heart in breast, could deny you love?<\/p>\n

“Cean Dubh Deelish” by Sir Samuel Ferguson. Public domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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