Dana Delany
didn’t know the glove size
of her boyfriend
so she asked the salesman
to put his hand on her breast
Prune Juice, 6, Summer 2011
Bruce England
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
達納德拉尼
不知道她男朋友
的手套尺寸
於是她請銷售員把他的手
放在她的乳房上
Chinese Translation (Simplified)
达纳德拉尼
不知道她男朋友
的手套尺寸
於是她请销售员把他的手
放在她的乳房上
Bio Sketch
Bruce
England lives and works in Silicon Valley. His haiku writing began in
1984, and his serious tanka writing in 2010. Other related interests
include haiku theory and practice. Long ago, a chapbook, Shorelines, was published with a friend, Tony Mariano.
The thematic and emotional turn the poem takes in the lower verse gives readers a good laugh, saying something significant about Dana Delany's view of sexuality.
ReplyDeleteA good poetic rendering of a recent report about Dana Delany:
"Dana Delany: Sex & Sensibility" by Amy Wallace, accessed at http://www.more.com/news/womens-issues/dana-delany-sex-sensibility?page=2
"I wouldn’t mind being the female version of George Clooney," she says....
... Ah, Delany’s big breasts. She has never shied away from talking about them, about how men view them as assets and so does she. While promoting the racy 1994 S&M comedy Exit to Eden, in which she played a dominatrix, she told Newsweek that the way she found out what size gloves to buy for a beau was to place a male colleague’s hand on her boob (“Definitely a large,” she said). It’s not a braggy thing—spoken in her voice it just sounds factual, even pragmatic....