By Donal Norton

TRIO for Kurt

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Come then, let's be as honest as we may

In this bleak waste where honesty's abhorred: Let's say my glands were suffering and bored When you, by chance, came by that fatal day. My eyes, good servants to the aching clay," Reported what they saw. The bloodstream roared With hormone urgings; passions soared; And every cell cried out to have its way.

That you were coy but made the urge complete. My mind then built a web of subtle lies

To prove that only you [O proud, lone flesh!] Were pre-ordained to be the final sweet. How crafty our mentation justifies

This futile struggle in our sex's mesh!

III.

That I am fickle, have no doubt-nor hope To leash me with a loving, tenuous skein: Why not accept this minute's lengthy scope And wait the morrow if you must complain? Time wasted now is wasted time forever!

In this eternal hour I'm all there is —

I'm in your arms I'm close-and you will never Recall, once lost, a fragment of this bliss!

What profits weeping, losing being sure? If not tomorrow then tomorrow week That old insatiate Death which all endure Will spread his arms: and I perforce will seek The love he grants. Till then, let it be said: He'll find me pillowed in our fertile bed.

Call it a dream or call it ageless Fate, But I have loved you without end or start Since first a germ of thought did generate Within this coil of mind or in this heart. For I was born of love-in that first seed Your grace was planted with the self's own core: Fortunate I, among this mortal breed

To have always heard your knocking at the door; To have recognized your ever-protean face Among the myriad shapes which you imposed On mortal form-I knew each subtle pace, Each glance, each touch, variety-enclosed.

How could I fail then loving at first sight The ageless You I met again last night?

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