Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Lip Song, unfinished

You, godding my whole white room
as carefully as Christ would do,
loose fingers where, were I a nun,
the nape would be--
O love, proceeding,
ripe against a hunger and receding.

Love, you, tetherer of gods to men;
Unusual habit under which
Beauty is blackened and ripe.

O star to my befuddled star, love neither quite
so quickly nor so well.

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