Sex and marriage

Quote

Poem

“To find yourself so tangled with me – / Rising from your coffin, a big shock”

‘A Picture of Otto’

“You had assumed this tunnel your family vault”

‘A Picture of Otto’

“Your ghost inseparable from my shadow / As long as your daughter’s words can stir a candle”

‘A Picture of Otto’

“Everything forgiven and in common”

‘A Picture of Otto’

“I was nursemaid. I fancied myself as that. I liked the crisis of the vital role”

‘Fever’

“The stone man made soup. / The burning woman drank it.”

‘Fever’

“Your life / Was a liner I voyaged in.”

‘The Blue Flannel Suit’

“I wanted to make you a solid writing-table / That would last a lifetime.”

‘The Table’

“So we squeezed into marriage finally”

‘A Pink Wool Knitted Dress’

“You saw the heavens open / And show riches, ready to drop upon us. / Levitated beside you.”

‘A Pink Wool Knitted Dress’

“Shaken in a dice-cup”

‘A Pink Wool Knitted Dress’

“A new soul”

‘You Hated Spain’

“In your pink wool knitted dress / Before anything had smudged anything / You stood at the altar”

‘A Pink Wool Knitted Dress’

“My chord jacket – thrice-dyed black, exhausted, / Just hanging on to itself.”

‘A Pink Wool Knitted Dress’

“Not quite the Frog-Prince. Maybe the Swineherd / Stealing this daughter’s pedigree dreams”

‘A Pink Wool Knitted Dress’

“So we squeezed into marriage finally”

‘A Pink Wool Knitted Dress’

“Thinking it is still your honeymoon / In the happy world, with your whole life waiting”

‘You Hated Spain’