A Marriage Book. James P. Lenfestey
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Название: A Marriage Book

Автор: James P. Lenfestey

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Зарубежные стихи

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isbn: 9781571319616

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СКАЧАТЬ Santa Fe, December 25, 1993

      25  On a Youngest Daughter’s Acceptance at the College of Her Choice

      26  On Course

      27  Once in the Sixties

       PART THREE: AND STILL SHE BLOOMS

      1  In Her Garden, She

      2  Two Knives

      3  Fall Colors

      4  Departure

      5  Expedition Alone

      6  Skin Like Botticelli’s Venus

      7  My Wife Sleeping as I Drive

      8  And Still She Blooms

      9  At the Temple of Aphrodite

      10  Swimming in the Sea of Time

      11  New New Mexico Woman

      12  You Know What I Know

      13  The Poet Visits His Son, a Concert Promoter, and Attends a Michael Franti Concert

      14  Dancing at Winter Solstice

      15  Wild Swans Near Gladstone

      16  Before the Grandchildren Arrive

      17  Watching Gus Draw

      18  End of Summer

      19  A Mirror in Rome

      20  Here Is My Promise to You, or Marco Polo Leaves the Kitchen for the Provinces

      21  When I Am Eighty

       EPILOGUE

        Wedding Poem

        Acknowledgments

       In the final analysis, poets and novelists will have more to say about love than psychologists, for they express the inexpressible, and describe individual persons and their love problems, with their individual solutions and failures, and this is true to life and to eros.

      John Sanford, The Invisible Partners

      WHO WOULD BELIEVE

      Even a good poet must be wary as a spider

      offering a book of love poems

      to the woman he married fifty years ago.

      If he exaggerates his love, she’ll know.

      If he denies it, she’ll devour him

      while remembering her old dead lovers.

      If he sands off the edge of his desire,

      what’s the point?

      And if his desire for her is undiminished,

      who would believe?

       PART ONE

       Lie Love Easy

      LIE LOVE EASY

      pores, pouring, pouring over

      lying under, lying, lie

      stroke soft furry truths

      in the lap

      pet soft purring truths

      in the lap

      take a long time

      jiggle hills easy

      love time

      gentle hills roll

      lick your fur

      lick your fur, cat

      make a breeze

      in the forest tangle

      kiss the slick

      leaves

      one and one

      become easy

      ease away

      the forest anger

      lie love

      please, no dread

      please, no leaving

      lie love easy

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