Enamoured(both) <br />with her new tights <br /> <br />their silky shiny sheer denier <br />their absolute blackness. <br /> <br />But mostly <br />the intricacy of their design. <br /> <br />The whole world <br />clinging to her legs. <br /> <br />Here Europe <br />twisting itself like a serpent <br /> <br />around her well formed <br />calf. <br /> <br />There Australia <br />crawling around <br /> <br />her other. <br /> <br />Here Asia <br />circumnavigating a thigh. <br /> <br />There China <br />exotically the other. <br /> <br />And here <br />the dark continent <br /> <br />disappearing under <br />her hem <br /> <br /> <br />And there: <br /> <br />“Ah...my America...my New Found Land! ”<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-s-donne-is-donne/
