Gender Relations

I.

The men live together
in the great lodge
that holds the totem
which no woman
is allowed to see.
.
They would
go where they should not.
and plot for the end the world.
They would open forbidden secrets
inside the goat stomach bag
which no woman should unfasten.
.
.
II.

I don't know when
it becomes dangerous.
Poetry is
dangerous.
When I told her how
humiliation had become
addiction and she said
she wanted it too,
I no longer felt alone.
Threads of perversity
bind opposites.