HELLCAT


He had arguments about a woman.
He argued to himself about her.
She was a hellcat, he argued.
Crazy, never the same two minutes.
Yet her breasts were hills of passion,
Her tongue made for swift kissing,
Her torso holding sanctaries
Strange as the lost temples
of sunken archipelagoes--
She carried sacraments for him
Yet his words for her we hellcat,
Crazy woman.

~by Carl Sandburg





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