So Close - The Prefiguration - 1971

Drawing by Claudia Warren

against light you my wife gather flowers along
the river reflecting hill and forsythia
at night, your fragrance dissolves metaphor
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in the midst of the collapse our room dark our
speech our love the background
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our bodies naked given up to each other reveal
the ecstasy the earth
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the world a river flower reflecting light revealing
a river flower the world reveals our love in love
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your odor returning night the bed our love returns
sea our first year
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body to body our night less boundary than fragrance
releases bird hill river
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