Closer and Closer
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Am I the vine and you the fence? I feel
Perhaps it is the other way around:
You vine—and I the mesh. What would appeal
Most, though, would be if you and I were bound
Together, living matter and strong poles,
With sometimes you the clasping links and vine
At once, and sometimes both our loving roles
The same at once. We both would make a shrine
To love inside a Buddha mystery, two
As simultaneous steel links and leaves
Together, both as both at once, as true
And true, true lovers, as true love perceives
Such paradoxes to be latent in
Our love as in conjoined twin and twin.