[poem] Making Love
Nov. 28th, 2014 01:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettWe practise with building bricks and breccias.
Just so--a castle. Just so--in my embrace
if only I hold fast enough, you'll be transformed--
your fragments grown into a plated armoured whole--
your red unblinking eyes your sturdy heart.
As with all complex structures, engineering is required
on every scale from child's play to mountain range;
chance and happenstance tend tenderly toward decay.
With these hands I thee knit together
or a sweater or a scarf; with these hands I thee play
music, best I can; I write for thee solemnities
in careful lines. I create for thee this waxing
waning love, albeit it small, or great--
and at close of day we'll sweep
the sawdust from the floor, we'll bank the fire,
we'll knead the bread--from these quiet domesticities
is all love made.
Just so--a castle. Just so--in my embrace
if only I hold fast enough, you'll be transformed--
your fragments grown into a plated armoured whole--
your red unblinking eyes your sturdy heart.
As with all complex structures, engineering is required
on every scale from child's play to mountain range;
chance and happenstance tend tenderly toward decay.
With these hands I thee knit together
or a sweater or a scarf; with these hands I thee play
music, best I can; I write for thee solemnities
in careful lines. I create for thee this waxing
waning love, albeit it small, or great--
and at close of day we'll sweep
the sawdust from the floor, we'll bank the fire,
we'll knead the bread--from these quiet domesticities
is all love made.
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Date: 2014-11-28 05:06 pm (UTC)your red unblinking eyes your sturdy heart.
♥___♥
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Date: 2014-11-28 05:40 pm (UTC)(the "red unblinking eyes" being garnets coz they're hard enough that they end up forming pressure shadows, protecting the things immediately around them from the worst of the metamorphism once formed)
(Granatglimmerschiefer was pretty much the thing that made me decide to definitely do geology - I had a sign from a glacier - and par consequence is the thing that my sibling-necklace, recently acquired by chosen-sib, is made out of.)
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Date: 2014-11-29 06:39 am (UTC)*looks up pictures of schist, and stares at them for a bit*
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Date: 2014-11-29 03:50 am (UTC)chance and happenstance tend tenderly toward decay.
Adore your rhyme and repetition and general use of poetic device here.
Also love the comparison of loving to making art and making ready for the next day.
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Date: 2014-11-29 04:17 pm (UTC)