36. EARTH! My likeness! Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, I now suspect that is
36. EARTH! My likeness! Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there, I now suspect that is not all; I now suspect there is something fierce in you, eligible to burst forth; For an athlete is enamoured of me – and I of him, But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me, eligible to burst forth, I dare not tell it in words – not even in these songs. -Walt Whitman, Calamus Thirty-six, Leaves of Grass HOMO MAGAZINE: FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER -- source link
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