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Her Breasts Full-Moon-Full Under Wool

Stain glass mural: History of Montreal at Berri de Montagny (now Berri-UQAM) metro station.
Claudia Lapp is one the Vehicule Poets who lived in Montreal during the seventies. Her poems are sensual, evocative and feminist. This poem from her book Honey published in 1973 captures the sensual, erotic and multicultural possibilities of the city.
Going into the city’s centre
in a snowstorm
to catch the metro
her ovaries sending blood signals
her breasts full-moon-full under wool
asking herself, is no one real
these chic career people
He ran to her, spoke to her as courtier wooing
they boarded together,
he was from La Bretagne
spoke Gaelic
detested the French
wrote Celtic music
(her heart was taken)
and getting off at Berri—
what difference he was oldish
with liquor on his breath—
he acknowledged the goddess
je t’aime, he said
her smile
her ovaries sending signals
her breast full-moon-full