Or what his mouth remembered from the press
Of her mute mouth. She had become the bride
Of something in his sense that understood
The touch of things, the moments of the blood.
(5)
They say they are one flesh:
They are two nations.
They cannot mix nor mesh:—
Their conjugations
Are cries from star to star.
They would commingle,
They couple far and far—
Still they are single.
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