Unalienable Eden
Sargent Mountain Pond
Acadia National Park
September 22 2002

While hiking through
         a quiet col,
I happen on
         a modest pond
and unearth kin
         before the fall.
They're skinny-dipping
         out beyond
the lily pads
         and calamus.
They couldn't try
         to slip on less.

Adam is rising
         on a rock
while Eve is wading
         by the shore.
There's nothing shy
         about his cock
and nothing base
         she need ignore.
He dives into
         their paradise
without the want
         of thinking twice.

The water all
         around is dark
with that organic
         stainlessness
which breeds in this
         Arcadian park.
Here clerics aren't
         required to bless
the issue; such
         baptismal rites
remain self-
         evident delights.       















copyright Gregory Perry 07/99
revised 06/02