Away above a harborful <br /> of caulkless houses <br />among the charley noble chimneypots <br /> of a rooftop rigged with clotheslines <br /> a woman pastes up sails <br /> upon the wind <br />hanging out her morning sheets <br /> with wooden pins <br /> O lovely mammal <br /> her nearly naked breasts <br /> throw taut shadows <br /> when she stretches up <br />to hang at last the last of her <br /> so white washed sins <br /> but it is wetly amorous <br /> and winds itself about her <br /> clinging to her skin <br /> So caught with arms <br /> upraised <br /> she tosses back her head <br /> in voiceless laughter <br /> and in choiceless gesture then <br /> shakes out gold hair <br /> <br />while in the reachless seascape spaces <br /> <br /> between the blown white shrouds <br /> <br /> stand out the bright steamers <br /> <br /> to kingdom come<br /><br />Lawrence Ferlinghetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/away-above-a-harborful/
