Something That Doesn’t Happen
Black is white night
and Manu’s rugby shorts
firebrand from the Far North
patriarch for the future.
Religious till midday
family Sunday dinner
mutton, beef and roast veggies in hot tubs
to horizon distant
but late at night, Sabbath dark
personal, delicious sins.
And then there was Manu
naked save for smile
and black shorts
Manu…
chopping wood
sweat in rivers
naked chest
who has eldest son, Adam
at the window
eyes transfixed.
To be naked
was the most cardinal of sensuous sins
until Manu arrived from wildest tips
of north of Far North
Manu…
there was Manu…
seen by all
and he knew
he should not…
Senior couple
wealth, wall-to-wall
dollars in diamonds
but Adam and Eve
had always changed in the bathroom
never in 30 years see each other naked
produced six kids.
But magnificent muscular male Manu
base element of mankind
has Adam’s gaze transfixed
through the window.
- Reade Robbins
24 June 2011
[2nd edit]
