Collage Electric

Hark close and still what I now whisper to you,
I love you, O you entirely possess me,
O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off,
Two hawks in the air, two fishes swimming in the sea,
What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;

Was it doubted that if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

There is something in staying close that pleases the soul well;
All things please the soul—but these please the soul well.


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(poema compuesto a partir de versos sueltos de I Sing The Body Electric & From Pent-Up Aching Rivers)