Pamela Silin Palmer The Love Poems of Honniker Winkley

Decorative Artist, Illustrator and Fine Artist

The Love Poems
of Honniker Winkley

Sonnet

What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ectasy?

--John Keats

The goose-girl walks with a rolling rhyme
Tossing her fowl-dappled scent behind
That teases and tugs a gander lust
In the young swart satyr.

Follow her up to the ticklish spring
To water her goslings and wash her white skin
Where hidden by hawthorne, he honks in the bower
Till like the bee she comes seeking the flower
"O goosey sweet goosey I'll find you" she warns
"I'm here dear" the sly darkling goat-boy responds
Grabbing the goose-girl by her butter arm;

The moment of feathers the moment of horn
The hot little goat rhythms quick in the morn:

A lost flock of geese wander off quite forlorn.

On to Love Likes A Gander

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