How women dealt with priapism...

1. Guildeluec and Medea.
Guildeluec concedes what defeats
Warm welcomes with spirit love
The mistress of Eliduc; Guiladun.
Medea, flamethrower, mother of two
Depleted by the phantasmagoria of the wedding queue
Impregnates the crown, the robe with her poison smoke.
Her sceptre, a wand. She is flame, frozen­
Guildeluec, smooth, concedes what defeats
God­wed, she knows love to be green;
'Winter is brown, desire in potentiate'
what stirs?
(She a heavenly kingdom has bought!)
Medea, yellow crocus, evergreen.
She is new­ gilded each spring. Her name is not forgot.
­Like Guildeluec's.
Note: Guildeluec bought a convent when her husband had an affair
becoming a secular abbess, medea is the name we remember negatively,
the story of Eliduc and the two women is from 'The Ebony Tower'), by
John Fowles.
*The last three lines are suppoused to connect with ­ 'what stirs?'
and they do not, which is why the thing has not seen the light of
day before..