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Pied Booty

By Dabney Stuart b. 1937 Dabney Stuart

Glory be to God for sexy things—

For cries of coupled lovers as they bind and bow;

For moles that on her hip’ll make his dolphin swim,

Fresh and fired up; nutty balls; G-strings;

Lovescapes pulsing and flesh-shoaled—furrow and plow;

And all shapes, their leer and freckle and whim.

All people dumpy, bald, regressive, strange;

Whoever is fickle, faithful (who knows how?)

With slick, abrasive; sweet, sour; disheveled, trim;

Who father-forth and mother-forth all change—

Praise Him.

Dabney Stuart, “Pied Booty,” from Poetry (July/August 2005). Copyright © 2005 by Dabney Stuart.

Source: Poetry (July 2005).

Biography

Of the Southern poets in the second half of the twentieth century, Dabney Stuart has established himself as one of the best and most consistent poets of his generation. Though his work has grown stylistically from formal verse to associative non-metrical free verse, what has remained relatively consistent are his themes and subject matter. Stuart explains to Fleur Adcock and Tod Marshall in Contemporary Poets that his themes . . .

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