Love by Carol Ann Duffy

Author:Carol Ann Duffy [Ann Duffy, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK
Published: 2022-12-19T17:00:00+00:00

2005

The Lovers

Pity the lovers,

who climb to the high room,

where the bed,

and the gentle lamps wait,

and disembark from their lives.

The deep waves of the night

lap at the window.

Time slips away

like land from a ship.

The moon, their own death,

follows them, cold,

cold in their blankets.

Pity the lovers, homeless,

with no country to sail to.

2005

New Year

I drop the dying year behind me like a shawl

and let it fall. The urgent fireworks fling themselves

against the night, flowers of desire, love’s fervency.

Out of the space around me, standing here, I shape

your absent body against mine. You touch me as the giving air.

Most far, most near, your arms are darkness, holding me,

so I lean back, lip-read the heavens talking on in light,

syllabic stars. I see, at last, they pray at us. Your breath

is midnight’s, living, on my skin, across the miles between us,

fields and motorways and towns, the million lit-up little homes.

This love we have, grief in reverse, full rhyme, wrong place,

wrong time, sweet work for hands, the heart’s vocation, flares

to guide the new year in, the days and nights far out upon the sky’s

dark sea. Your mouth is snow now on my lips, cool, intimate, first kiss,

a vow. Time falls and falls through endless space, to when we are.

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