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To Stay
ОглавлениеOne in the morning it must have been,
or half past one.
In a corner of that dive;
in back of the wooden partition.
Apart from the two of us, the place completely empty.
A kerosene lamp barely shed some light.
The vigilant servant was sleeping by the door.
No one would have seen us. But
we were so on fire for each other
that caution was beyond us anyway.
Our clothes were half undone—we weren’t wearing much,
since it was blazing hot, a heavenly July.
Delight in flesh amidst
clothes half undone:
quick baring of flesh—the image of it
has crossed twenty-six years; and now has come
to stay here in this poetry.
[1918; 1919]
