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Studying Love
Foreword
Just as painters and sculptors study
the human form in life drawing classes, noting the shape, form, movement,
accessing from their own vital soul, a manner of seeing, of feeling, of
communing with body, flesh, energy, my poems in this volume, is an act in
the same vein. Life drawing
with words, however, not charcoal.
In wishing to create a work about
love, I have chosen to study the interaction of two individuals, imbuing
their particular dance of love, with all manner of imagery, all manner of
emotion, all manner of romantic yearning, culminating in the final five
poems which aim at drawing blood. Claws digging in deeply.
Upon a shoulder, across a face, tearing open a heart, tenaciously
aggravating a pulse, to force it to move faster, with anger, rage, and a
healthy drop of raucous laughter.
These
are not poems of platonic love. Nor are they the poems of love from a
mother to her daughters, or a man to his son.
These are poems of lover to lover.
Lover from lover. These
words aim at presenting one view from one human.
One view only.
After
all, what is love? How is
love manifested? Is there a
manual for me? For you?
For us to enjoy on a sandy beach, or while lying, dying upon a
sterile hospital bed? While
holding hands watching a Sea Gull in flight?
Love
is what love is. Eternal.
Harsh. Boiling.
Savage. Tender.
Renewed. Worn out.
Worn down. Fired.
Tired. Fresh. Vital.
Margot Van Sluytman
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