Harry Guest
the don juan papers
lord john looks forward
No longer then romance
the dream replaced by rain
Spatter and chill against the glass
grey scudding air
Formed for a time delight
the curse of fragrance round the rose
sheer excellence of flesh
Count now alone the grains
allotting the fatigue,
a strategy involved between the kiss
and getting dressed again
That inch of time though sunlit
no different in texture
from other moments littering a day
Pacing the noon gravel near the lilac,
decanter, yellow apples, cigarettes,
the calf-bound memoirs opened by oneself,
the medicine to sleep, the touch
of sweat and slide of mouth on skin,
appointments made and broken,
made and kept,
the music and the coffee and the talk
Such strata in the hourglass merely note
the past increasing,
oxygen inhaled,
night on its way
the dream replaced by rain
Spatter and chill against the glass
grey scudding air
Formed for a time delight
the curse of fragrance round the rose
sheer excellence of flesh
Count now alone the grains
allotting the fatigue,
a strategy involved between the kiss
and getting dressed again
That inch of time though sunlit
no different in texture
from other moments littering a day
Pacing the noon gravel near the lilac,
decanter, yellow apples, cigarettes,
the calf-bound memoirs opened by oneself,
the medicine to sleep, the touch
of sweat and slide of mouth on skin,
appointments made and broken,
made and kept,
the music and the coffee and the talk
Such strata in the hourglass merely note
the past increasing,
oxygen inhaled,
night on its way
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