Voices in Time
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Topography
Scarlet betel-nut juice
spattered about,
aloe paste
dashed here and there
in yellow streaks.
Richer stains—
impressions
of sandalwood oil,
red footprints
from the rouge on her feet.
Petals that
clung to her hair
have dropped in the
scattered folds—
every position
a woman took pleasure from
is told on these bed sheets.
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Eros
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Amaru, from the Amarusataka. The poem is composed of one hundred stanzas describing the various phases of a woman's life and love.
Can it be true, what is so constantly affirmed, that there is no sex in souls? I doubt it; I doubt it exceedingly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1827
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