The Iowa Review
Volume 22
Issue 2 Spring-Summer
1992
Kepler's Discovery of Elliptical Orbits
Ken Poyner
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Article 41
Kepler's Discovery
Ken Poyner
That much
of Elliptical Orbits
for a meal
Undercooked
and the spice last year's,
But the serving girl not bad
And
Over
With
a
causes her to
slap
leap
the bench, but smiling,
a
that says slap me
giggle
Again and the lace of her bodice
Just becoming bedraggled, the bow
and for the change in my pocket
Already undone
No doubt a room could be rented with her in it,
Laughing and spicy and all the energy
Of a fresh horse whipped, andwhip
Imight. Whip,
and she goes over
The table, her wonderful
two-hands
rear
In a plate of hash, dusted off with the backs
her fingers. A man might
be pressed
or
even
To last an hour with
her,
Three men: a woman who never winds
down,
at flood,
Water
mountains
from
the
rushing
bread crumbs in her hair and stew
Yesterday's
Of
the last of her arms and nothing
Held firmly in place, but strong,
On
about her
All
of what
the strength and the understanding
or any man or the
a
With
gentleman
boy
Taken by the inn to draw the water,
She could do,
a citizen
needing
Only a solid bed, good flooring,
Air
in great bites
Immobile.
and an earth
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