For Nancy Joe Burling
Your Kiss reveals to me the meaning of
material, reveals the press of moisture
and exchange of breath, the sparking that connects
the name of Action to the flame of Love,
as Fire that no mortal match could foster,
the melding heat for Essence and Effects;
Your Kiss presses to prove
my outer Beast an inner Seraphim
whose twin aspects are one, in a revolve,
and all useless dichotomies dissolve
because your Kiss whispers and thunders on my skin.
Your Dance reveals to me the meaning of
melody; It translates the tongues of Tone
and Rhythm into shapes of Empathy;
Its every Action is a flame of Love
that radiates from you through every bone
and meets its rebound rebounding from me;
Arc of a gliding dove
who spirals round her spiraling mate,
it traces melodies where there was silence:
now great with Peace, then quick with Passion’s violence,
your Dance provokes the Music that our souls create.
Your Love reveals to me the meaning of
myself, both visible and essential;
Your Love points me to purposes which give
the name of Action to the flame of Love,
that swell the wild fruit with sweet potential,
that Dance and Kiss what we must Sing and Live;
Your Love moves to involve
the darkened corners with the bright,
leaving no atom of me not caressed,
revealing Matter, Songs and Selves at best,
as incandescent Windows on the the Single Light.