DDCPoetry

Poem Found Here:  "The Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Carol Light This poem is "freely after Rilke" -- Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo .  While Rilke's poem has more of an existential  -- this poem has a tongue and cheek feel starting with the first line, "This guy's lost his head but, Jesus," through the tone.  From the lost head the speaker focuses on that luscious body:      what radiance gleams beneath the pectorals,      and, as the eye follows the contours      south towards genesis, well,      one could go blind smiling. The lines feel tongue in cheek in what past me called, "physical reverence."  Who doesn't like a some good pectorals and contours?  However, the poem turns a bit with the innuendo of "genesis" for the male part.  Yes, the humor is in innuendo, but there's something too tactful about the word choice.  And the poem goes somewhat into it after the stanza break. On a side...