Europa
By Gay Greenleaf
We never heard her side
of the story; how
she laughed when the milk-
white bull rubbed
his velvety head
against her swelling breasts;
how he licked her lips
with his warm tongue,
and her veins blazed
with steam from his damp
breath; how her heart raced
as he scooped her up with
an easy toss of his curly
head. They didn't want
us to know how she enjoyed
his lips lapping her labial flow
beneath the burning Aegean
sun; hot hotly she ached
with desire
to receive the god again.
[Another poem by Gay Greenleaf]
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