from Eleni Sikelianos's "The California Poem:"

In my seekness I
salute California as Empire
which rendered us capsized
to sizes of hipses & thighses

but like a burger I will rise
in bits of bodily heat such as
god's abstinence to show
the Sun's always a virgin in this assembled

paradise and every gray whale is gorging
on amphipods amidst the quantum foam

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See also Sikelianos's: The Monster Lives of Boys & Girls