Название: A Marriage Book
Автор: James P. Lenfestey
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Зарубежные стихи
isbn: 9781571319616
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25 On a Youngest Daughter’s Acceptance at the College of Her Choice
26 On Course
PART THREE: AND STILL SHE BLOOMS
6 Skin Like Botticelli’s Venus
10 Swimming in the Sea of Time
13 The Poet Visits His Son, a Concert Promoter, and Attends a Michael Franti Concert
16 Before the Grandchildren Arrive
20 Here Is My Promise to You, or Marco Polo Leaves the Kitchen for the Provinces
Wedding Poem
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
PROLOGUE
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