Shivaun Nestor

Shivaun Nestor
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday
June 10
Company
Shivaun Nestor Design
Bio
Lady of loud laughter, lover of politics, poetry, sex, the moving image, metaphor, and most things queer. Web/graphic designer, health/sexuality educator, veteran San Francisco hill walker, frequent gourmet cook, and occasional party grrl.

MAY 28, 2009 10:07AM

Normandy (a sinful cinquain alternative for Verbal)

Rate: 17 Flag

Train tracks cut
a path through our lust.
In this war place,
heightened by the fear
of getting caught,
Desire invades imagination,
moving hand to cunt.

In the music of the train wheels,
we follow - centurions
and blue-painted Gaels,
knights and conscripted farmhands.
I plaster your body against
remnants of Roman aqueducts.
Skin breaks against
the pleasure of rough stone.

With eye-holds and hand steps,
feet flexings and cleft kisses,
we become Grrl Joan,
Eleanor of Aquitaine,
and medieval peasant girls,
the last surviving despite
the Right of First Night.

Rites of First Night.
In Celtic times,
fucking consecrated.
Our vaginal juices mingle,
fertilize the fields.
With breasts and bellies,
buttocks, thighs and cunts
we pay homage
to the myriads who have come before.

In this farmplace
desire expands us.
Our rutting becomes
milkmaids, herbalists,
countesses and midwives.
Hands tear in black soil,
burying cravings
to pull out full with
eggplants, carrots and cabbages.
Our appendages entwine,
disentwine, and entwine again.

Becoming branch ends and rootlegs,
we plant ourselves in the field,
bearing Eve-fruit,
fermenting Calvados.

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And its chewier, too. (I had been saving this one for Foody Tuesday ;)
Now THAT is erotic poetry perfection. If I could double-thumb, I would.
This is great! Image after image after image so well-crafted!
Hands tear in black soil,
burying cravings
to pull out full with
eggplants, carrots and cabbages.
You are the mama of metaphors

We are not worthy
absolutely luscious, visceral, erotic, fantastic. beautiful.
Whoa...brought to new heights by this beauty, my lowly effort sinks under the weight of such perfection.
imagery and sensuality. Well done! --rated--
Verbal, 'twas your challenge made me do it :o (Actually, may try my hand at a sonnet next time.)
Dehlia, Spin Doctor, FLW, Buffy, Mr. Mustard, Robin! Thank you very much. I am glad that you enjoyed the read. I have to be honest, this piece was already in the making (if only I could be such an improvisatory word cook as to have written it on the fly). Verbal's challenge just made this seem like the time to publish it.
JK, re: traveling - it was actually initially written to cheer up a former lover who was down in the dumps. We'd always talked about going to Normandy together (it was the St. Joan thing), but never made it.
Wow! Shivaun, you really know how to stir up a lofty midieval cinquain!!! Best one by far!!!! Earthy, erotic goodness!
Thank you, Kathy, and it has real dirt!
hell yes I would call this poetry.
It's beautiful Shivaun!
more? can we ask for more?
Julie, thank you! Now let me see what I can pull out of my vegetable bin ;)
Love yous imagery of fermentation, juices and calvados. This will stay with me. Thanks you. HIghly rated.
Beautifully done! Love this - "Bearing Eve-fruit,"

I had images of an erotic celtic infinity knot of passion and love - "Our appendages entwine,
disentwine, and entwine again."

Simply awesome, I loved it, sincerely,
peece,
dj
Jeez.... I GOTTA get to Normandy! =o)
Une jeune fille de vache cherche chevalier pour l'amour!

But in a pinch, I'll accept some Calvados.

rrrrated!
Athena, Shiral & Jimenace, thank you, thank you, thank you. A toast in return - Calvados? (Sorry, Shiral, I looked, but couldn't find any San Francisco knights wearing 10 gallon hats).

Livemonster, welcome! Your words just made me very sweaty.

Shiral, if only I lived in Normandy, I might indeed be able to help out a cowgirl! So yes, toast instead!
This is beautiful. Great poem.
LOL, Shivaun...

Actually I was aiming for "Milk maid" rather than "cow girl." I see it REALLY got lost in translation, but that's my fault. See? Erotica addles the brain. Boy, would Madame Inan, my High School French teacher hang her head in shame!
holy goddamn...

um...

loved the eleanor reference. the "eve fruits". ..

Normandy...

june 6 coming up. who will celebrate? walking ghosts, who hopefully
once upon a time
enjoyed the kinda
beautiful fuck you
describe......

can you imagine a romantic interlude on the very beach where freedom was delivereed once & for all

to Europa, our Mother,
wailing,
for her lost blue-eyed boy,
uncle sam...

in the end of an early prophecy, "america", blake shows us a miserable sight in the home
of the free:

some goddamn "hollow voice" that over america laments...

"the awful apparition hovers!
and like the voiices of religious dead,
heard in the mountains,
when holy zeal scents the sweet valleys.....

(fulla eden fruit ill bet)

of ripe virgin bliss...."

the hollow voice over Orc, burning energy of the Revolution,
laments.....

Enough lamenting, action! More action like this in the very
msot symbolic locations
Gaia has to offer...

JME..rated & friended........whats this book club??????????
Fireeyes24, bardgirl55, thank you so much!

James, a poem in return! Wow, and yes to all you wrote.

Shiral, it's not your French that's at fault, it's mine, LOL. (Actually though, the idea of a cowgirl searching for a knight in Texas has a certain oddball appeal.)
Oops, sorry James - book club -
http://open.salon.com/blog/os_book_club/2009/05/30/some_thoughts_on_the_os_book_club
wonderful poem. Beautifully constructed, sensual and eloquent.
Thanks