Dorothy Pillories a Kipling Translator to Her Idea of Regina

by Laurence Foshee

(During the first day of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature’s 11th Conference. São Paulo, Brazil. July 2008)

If what I crave
gives as all
what-ifs bear nev
er-will’s still
born iffy grave,

then ditch Rudyard
& manhood's
écrits du cul
(if's kiss-to-
tell), dear; & plead

our ifs reach
love of myself
or you, enough
or too much.