Eros

Denise LevertovDenise Levertov

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The flowerlike
animal perfume
in the god’s curly
hair —don’t assume
that like a flower
his attributes
are there to temptyou or
direct the moth’s
hunger —
simply he is
the temple of himself,hair and hide
a sacrifice of blood and flowers
on his altarif any worshipper
kneel or not.
Denise Levertov
About the poet

Denise Levertov

1923 - 1997/EnglishDenise Levertov (October 24, 1923–December 20, 1997) was a British-born American poet. Born in Ilford, Essex, England, her mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff, was Welsh. Her father, Paul Levertoff, immigrated to England from Germany,…

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