Let us praise, to say it again, her spiritual pride
And admire one who delights in what she has and is
(Who says also: "A woman is like a motor car:
She needs a good body"
And: "I sun bathe in the nude, because I want
to
be
blonde all over. ")
This is spiritual piety and physical ebullience .
This is the vivid glory, spiritual and physical,
of Miss Marilyn Monroe.
Ann Lauterbach
A VISIT TO THE COUNTRY
There are legends which please the inner ear,
that part that yearns, does not hear
but knows when the mechanical rabbit is slain
by the real thing . The real thing
revokes the vulgar indiscriminate corpse
into pain of birth, told and retold
by the woman who otherwise does not speak.
She stops drinking and digs holes for roses.
One
is
called Chicago Peace, bred
to resemble the white rose on the tapestry
in which the unicorn distills myth from history.
She thinks of Saint Francis as the bluebirds nest
in
a small wood box . They exist , but
Saint Francis is a reverie among bald, silent monks .
On an island in the pond two turtles shine.
They wait for centuries for the
geese
to lay.
