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Love Between Novices Peter Davidson
"Love is so simple," we vowed
to ourselves, while our nails
gnawed into our palms.
The body buries its evidence, yet, at the
rustle of a nightgown,
its eyes flash.
We spoke after fifty years of resentful
silence, skin now leathery as
winter apples, yet the recollection of
the groan of our hapless
senses still had keenness enough
to rattle us like hollow trees.
Mismatched yet awkwardly goatish, tender yet
thickfingered, we clambered up toward
the lip of a volcano
reciting advisory endearments,
only to miss our footing
and slither back into the mere
ashen consolations of the bed. Oh my dear,
think of my hand, warm on your breast!
How long we spent hungering for
one another's souls, ignorant that years
had still to pass before
either soul would awake
and arise, arise, arise.
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