Gay Epiphany
In a culture where the aesthetic experience is denied and atrophied,
genuine religious ecstasy rare, intellectual pleasure scorned — it is
only natural that sex should become the only personal epiphany
of most people....
—Gary Snyder
o sperm, testes, paradidymus! o scrotum, septum, and rectum!
o penis! o prepuce, urethra!o prostrate gland! o Dartos muscle! o spermatid and
spermatocyte!inguinal canals! seminal vesicles! seminiferous tubules!
prostatic utricles! efferent ductules! testicular lobules!
o male germinal epithelium!o symphosis pubis! tunica albuginea! vasa efferentia!
corpus cavernosum et spongiosum! o ampulla of vas!o meatus and bulb! o cutaneous dorsal vein! o lobulous
membranous convoluted pouch!o glans penis, slightly bulging structure at the distal end
of the penis!o Cowper's glands, secreting a slimy substance which
functions as a lubricant!o seminal fluids, functioning to suspend and protect
the delicate spermatozoa during their stay within
the male body!o epididymis, a tube-like structure commonly
attaining a length of up to twenty feet!Boy, at the lovely tip of your external urethral orifice,
all my poetries terminate—Easter, 1971