HOW THIN YOUR NOSE IS

M.M.

How thin your nose is

where it is horizontally level with your eyes. The way I love your face-

If now I had the will

to lift any part of me to your face, even to turn my head-

If I were not depleted and fulfilled—

I should be able to try to know, to say, what your face is

as now I rub it with my own-

finding our loving laziness fulfilling;

yet, suspended in this magnetism,

I was impelled just now to reach you again--

As if there were anything else in the world

So good or so important.

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by Manfred Wise

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