prompt questons for the grass is singing

O I say these are not the parts and poems of the Body only, but of the soul, The thin red jellies within you, or within me, the bones, and the marrow in the bones, The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees, The circling rivers, the breath, and breathing it in and out, The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The skin, the sun-burnt shade, freckles, hair, The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes, Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening, The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,įood, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming, The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings, Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman, Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity, The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,

The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean, Leg-fibres, knee, knee-pan, upper-leg, under leg,Īnkles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel Īll attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body, or of any one’s body, male or female, Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above, Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root, Ribs, belly, back-bone, joints of the back-bone, Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, fore-finger, finger-balls, finger-joints, finger-nails,īroad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side, Upper-arm, arm-pit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones, Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest, Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,Ĭheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue, Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges, Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,Įyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eye-brows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids, Man’s, woman’s, child’s, youth’s, wife’s, husband’s, mother’s, father’s, young man’s, young woman’s poems , I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are poems,

I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,) O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,

Prompt questons for the grass is singing