Desire to us
Was like a double death,
Swift dying
Of our mingled breath,
Evaporation
Of an unknown strange perfume
Between us quickly
In a naked
Room.
(1947)
an abandoned chest of roistering literature for the drunk and rampant reader.
an abandoned chest of roistering literature for the drunk and rampant reader.
Desire to us
Was like a double death,
Swift dying
Of our mingled breath,
Evaporation
Of an unknown strange perfume
Between us quickly
In a naked
Room.
(1947)
drunken library 