Literagram#24: Walt Whitman’s To A Stranger
Posted on 12. Feb, 2012 by Dan in Blog, Literagrams
a transcendental spin on the phrase “estranged lovers”…
Literagram#24: Walt Whitman’s To A Stranger
I have somewhere surely
Lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall’d as we flit by each other,
Fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,You grew up with me,
Were a boy with me or a girl with me,
I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become
not yours only nor left my body mine only,You give me the pleasure of your eyes,
face, flesh as we pass,
You take of my beard, breast, hands,
in return,I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you
when I sit alone or wake at night, alone
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
my beard
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