Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Great Regulars: Blood blurs the line between sex

and death, as in "The Sacrifice", a poem featuring a bull, in which two maidens lead the mesmerised animal in a highly sexualised dance that climaxes when they take a knife to its throat and the bull "swoons/into its edge, blood falling/in bright gobs on earth/where corn will sprout/green and gold".

from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Red Riding Hood's rebellion

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