"Oh Man is the highest type of animal existing
  or known to have existed
but differs from other animals
    more in his extraordinary mental
 development than in anatomical
structure . . ."
Well when I think of men
I think of then in a sexual manner
Otherwise, I don't notice the difference, you know

being absorbed as being  one just thinks 'people'
and not 'male' and 'female' so much as someone
to talk to. And how men are all

the same being born from Man and Woman and out
   of a woman's body commonly known as 'Mother.'

"And God said let us make MAN in our own image,
  after our likeness and let them have dominion."

And "Nature may stand up
   and say to all the world,
  'This was a MAN!'"

And then "I pronounce you MAN
   and wife."

Daddy you is dandy

when you're here. Shrill and soft old Autumnal

wind blow     and we are tucked below

the shallow soil where seeds spring
   up and wither quickly
flirting madly.

   I've got him now,

   the beautiful one for my part

of the year here in my dark
 and expensive underground
  all mine before he is shared

and killed again by the fearless boar
he is hunting and torn apart
and his blood runs out and red roses and anemones

bloom    and it is spring    and
    he is gone again

That man about town gone again . . .

reprinted from Just Space: poems, 1979-1989, Black Sparrow Press, 1991