ted_hughes
Lovesong
He
loved
her
and
she
loved
him
.
His
kisses
sucked
out
her
whole
past
and
future
or
tried
to
He
had
no
other
appetite
She
bit
him
she
gnawed
him
she
sucked
She
wanted
him
complete
inside
her
Safe
and
sure
forever
and
ever
Their
little
cries
fluttered
into
the
curtains
Her
eyes
wanted
nothing
to
get
away
Her
looks
nailed
down
his
hands
his
wrists
his
elbows
He
gripped
her
hard
so
that
life
Should
not
drag
her
from
that
moment
He
wanted
all
future
to
cease
He
wanted
to
topple
with
his
arms
round
her
Off
that
moment's
brink
and
into
nothing
Or
everlasting
or
whatever
there
was
Her
embrace
was
an
immense
press
To
print
him
into
her
bones
His
smiles
were
the
garrets
of
a
fairy
palace
Where
the
real
world
would
never
come
Her
smiles
were
spider
bites
So
he
would
lie
still
till
she
felt
hungry
His
words
were
occupying armies
Her
laughs
were
an
assassin's
attempts
His
looks
were
bullets
daggers
of
revenge
His
glances
were
ghosts
in
the
corner
with
horrible
secrets
His
whispers
were
whips
and
jackboots
Her
kisses
were
lawyers steadily
writing
His
caresses
were
the
last
hooks
of
a
castaway
Her
love
-tricks
were
the
grinding
of
locks
And
their
deep
cries
crawled
over
the
floors
Like
an
animal
dragging
a
great
trap
His
promises
were
the
surgeon's
gag
Her
promises
took
the
top
off
his
skull
She
would
get
a
brooch
made
of
it
His
vows
pulled
out
all
her
sinews
He
showed
her
how
to
make
a
love
-knot
Her
vows
put
his
eyes
in
formalin
At
the
back
of
her
secret
drawer
Their
screams
stuck
in
the
wall
Their
heads
fell
apart
into
sleep
like
the
two
halves
Of
a
lopped
melon
,
but
love
is
hard
to
stop
In
their
entwined
sleep
they
exchanged
arms
and
legs
In
their
dreams
their
brains
took
each
other
hostage
In
the
morning
they
wore
each
other's
face
020926
...
pipedream
*
applause
*
couldn't
have
put
it
better
than
that
,
now
could
you
:)
i
think
they
were
doomed
from
the
start
,
weren't
they
?
too
much
chemistry
would
mean
an
equally
massive
fizzle-out.
030618
...
Risen
The
other
day
I
sat
beneath
his
fishing
rods
and
clasped
my
hands
tight
,
nails
dug
into
my
palms
,
as
I
tried
not
to
think
about
whether
we
are
just
as
doomed
.
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