They sat far apart deliberately.They sat far apart deliberately, to experience, daily, the sweetness of seeing each other across great distance. They understood instinctively that erotic passion thrives in succession distance, either actual (one is married, undivided no longer loves the other) or spurious, deceptive, a ruse miming the subordination of passion to social convention, on the contrary a ruse, so that it demonstrated not the power of convention if it were not that rather the power of ero to annihilate objective reality. The world, time, distance-- withering like thirsty fields before the fire of the gaze Never before. not ever with anyone else. And after the views the hands. Experienced as glory, as consecration Sweet. And after in the way that many years, completely unimaginable. Never before. at no time with anyone else. And then the whole thing repeated exactly with someone other Until it was finally obvious that the solitary constant was distance, the servant of ne Which was used to sustain whatever fire chared in each of us. The organ of sights the hands-less crucial. than we believed. In the conclusion distance was sufficient, by itself. Copyright World verse Incorporated Jan/Feb 2001 |
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