XIPHOPAGUS LUST • by Christian Avery Bryant

In younger years their
needs were cool
Not yet ripe to want
the Fruit
But older now the boys
are wise
To lusting of things
in and outside
Belly to belly
one for woman
lusts
Cock to cock
the other for man
desires
This the reason why
the lover
of fine women
fights his brother
with tooth, nail
and
separating blade
in seeking freedom
from his brother’s
downward groping
hands

Christian Avery Bryant is a Los Angeles writer whose short work has appeared in magazines such as Scared Naked, City Morgue, Horror Carousel, Taj Mahal Review, Peep Show and Horror Express. Websites that have featured his work include The Harrow, Poet Express, Roses and Rainbows and Skyline Magazine. When he isn’t writing, he can be found brewing Irish stouts at home in 2-gallon batches, or getting ink at the Tattoo Room in Simi Valley.

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Posted on January 30, 2010 in Surreal
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7 Responses to “XIPHOPAGUS LUST • by Christian Avery Bryant”


  1. Roberta SchulbergGoro Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 7:32 am

    Growing up is a good idea. Good rhythm except in the line, “the other for man;” Wouldn’t a line like, “the other man desires” do?

  2. fishlovesca Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    No, because he isn’t speaking of desire.

    Good work. Four stars.

  3. Amy Corbin Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    Cool poem!

  4. Wisconsin Writer Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 1:57 pm

    Read it to quickly the first time and slipped into the same mistake Roberta made. Thanks to fishlovesca, I read it again and saw the second comment was right. Good poem, especially in that it says a lot in very few words and has a nice symmetry.

  5. vondrakker Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    Either , C.A. B.
    is writing in “Tongues”
    OR
    I’m brain dead.
    I don’t get it !!
    I don’t like it !!
    Barely a one from me !!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  6. fishlovesca Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    I think I understood this poem almost immediately because I had read the Rossner book Attachments. I personally find explorations of attachments interesting.

  7. Roberta SchulbergGoro Says:
    January 31st, 2010 at 8:06 am

    Is it an ilLUSTRation of the difference between lust and desire? Anyway, it’s a good illustration of the need to grow up.

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