- 15 Apr 2011, 13:28
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i want you to stand with me
as a birch beside a thorn tree,
i want you as a gold-green moss
close to the bark
when the winds toss
my limbs to tragedy and dark.
you are to be loveliness
in my cold days,
the love colour of my barrenness,
the fingers that demonstrate
my ways.
i can anticipate no days
unless your graceful sway of hands
arrange my awkward life.
i want you for my wife:
keep confronting me as a woman
and make this complex loneliness
more human,
more alive,
and girdered by your graceful sway of hands
we shall ascend from the frigid lands.
michael hartnett
as a birch beside a thorn tree,
i want you as a gold-green moss
close to the bark
when the winds toss
my limbs to tragedy and dark.
you are to be loveliness
in my cold days,
the love colour of my barrenness,
the fingers that demonstrate
my ways.
i can anticipate no days
unless your graceful sway of hands
arrange my awkward life.
i want you for my wife:
keep confronting me as a woman
and make this complex loneliness
more human,
more alive,
and girdered by your graceful sway of hands
we shall ascend from the frigid lands.
michael hartnett