Delia Tramontina
PLEASURE + GOD
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The poem is a contrapuntal arranged in two columns. It can be read either across or downward. Reading down the left column, the poem says, “my body / including my / organs and skin / my hungry parts / and parts / awakening to my hunger / this body to tell / what finds excitement / my body expanding / to increase me / to make me a net / catching / pleasure that / causes this flutter makes / me open / always opening / always avoiding / what makes me close / so I can keep myself / in the world.” Reading down the right column, the poem says, “it’s not good for / man to be / alone I will / make a helper suitable / for him it’s not / good for / man to be / alone I / will make a helper / suitable form him it’s not good / for man to be / alone I will make / a helper / suitable / for him it’s not good / for man / to be alone I / will make a helper / suitable / for him.” Read across the poem says, “my body it’s not good for / including my man to be / organs and skin / alone I will / my hungry parts / make a helper suitable / and parts for him it’s not / awakening to my hunger good for / this body to tell / man to be / what finds excitement alone I / my body expanding will make a helper / to iincrease me suitable for him it’s not good / to make me a net for man to be / catching alone I will make / pleasure that a helper / causes this flutter makes suitable / me open for him it’s not good / always opening for man / always avoiding to be alone I / what makes me close will make a helper / so I can keep myself suitable / in the world for him.”