I
Beauty like hers has an unknown quality
as in a radiant mystery that is sublime
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The clouds are dark as the night
until the sky opens it sluices
with here and there light
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Now is the winter with trees naked
when there is cold and sifting rain,
stripped bare without leaves
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We are back with the kissing from above,
back with the shining faces baking outside,
their desires climbing as a ritual
like a pergola.
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I
Now is the time of our awakening
in world where things are beautiful,
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Right at the weir in the river
the water in the early morning is pitch black,
the scenery around me etched rock hard
without human conversation, the silence folds over me
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The farmer isn’t dead
the earth that he adores, still remembers him
where his wife is raped,
his toddler daughter also
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Song of Songs: Chapter one
When my darling is still slumbering
the blanket drawn up to her chin,
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I
Tonight for the first time I caught your gaze
where you smelt roses in a garden,
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