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This poem is taken from PN Review 278, Volume 50 Number 6, July - August 2024.

La Géante Alex Wong
from the sonnet of Baudelaire


In the dim forgotten age when Mother Nature,
Brimming with a potent verve,
Was every day conceiving prodigies,

I would have liked
          to pass my days
Close to a giantess,
          still in her youth:
To lie with her, like some voluptuous cat
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