I Love You,

With My Linen Heart.

You Cannot

Know How These

Rigid, Lumpy Arms

Shudder In Your Grasp,

Or What

Tears Dam Up Against

These Blue Eye-smudges At

Your Capriciousness

At Night I Watch You Sleep;

You'll Never Know

How I Thrust My Face

Into The Stream

Of Your Warm Breath;

And How

Love-words Choke Me Behind

This Sewn-up Mouth.

:: David Harsent ::