Quatrain of Tyumen Woman - 1095

Quatrain of Tyumen Woman

Tyumen - an area in Central Russia

1.
I was in Tyumen incarnate,
sloshing in swamps up to my
knee,

I was searching for a Russian
woman who skipped out on
me,

We fell in love in the shadow
of freedom without milk or
honey,

The taste of a heated prurience,
with romance thick and
runny.

2.
But something happened
between us, to separate her
yearning,

She headed for the forests,
to hide from my selfish
burning.

Alas! And now, I am lost in
this valley so cold and out of
breath,

The pleasures this woman
gave to me, will surely be my
death.

Yorktown Disciple
1997