“As We Are So Wonderfully Done with Each Other”
Written by duckrabbitAs we are so wonderfully done with each other
As we are so wonderfully done with each other
We can walk into our separate sleep
On floors of music where the milkwhite cloak of childhood liesO my lady, my fairest dear, my sweetest, loveliest one
Your lips have splashed my dull house with the speech of flowers
My hands are hallowed where they touched over your
soft curving.It is good to be weary from that brilliant work
It is being God to feel your breathing under meA waterglass on the bureau fills with morning . . .
Don’t let anyone in to wake us.Source: The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1968). It’s an amazing book. Highly, highly recommended.
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
Discussion (1 Comment)
Ahhhh. Thats what I like about duckrabbit – you have as much respect for the images that words can conjure up as you do for those that come out of small metal and glass boxes.