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This Much and More

by Djuna Barnes, 1915

If my lover were a comet
          Hung in air,
I would braid my leaping body
          In his hair.
Yea, if they buried him ten leagues
          Beneath the loam,
My fingers they would learn to dig
          And I’d plunge home!

Tags: anniversary, desire, love, weddings

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