"every feral hair / is given its credible gumption..."

[bronze_ribbons]

....Moon of the gnashing wolf, moon of the overtumulting tidewaters,
moon of the itch of love, of the gnash of love, of the waters of love
-- we've all been there.

...How short, how everyday, is the step
between two worlds? -- the thickness of the skull? of the skin?
My wife's friend Jane's son young son announced,
in case we didn't know it, "Men-have-penises.
Women-have-vagendas." That's a good one, yes?
And I've been pleased to have been issued passports
into some of those "vagendas" -- to have traveled there.
And always, at that journey's end, I've been left breathless,
changed for a moment and lost in myself and breathless,
and beached on a foreign shore.

- Albert Goldbarth, "Budget Travel Through the Universe"