a little love goes a long way

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A LITTLE LOVE GOES A LONG WAY

Ta Trammell

I

Locked in the hot sweat of a rocking arm, love, you lay,Rocked in the hard, hot play of a scented tuft,

Straining hard in the ruff of your curling hair,

Pulling your loose curls from your ruffled mane,

Love, we were one and the dirty sheet enclosed us there,Hot on a hard, hair bed in the covenant of spring,

That smelled of April and spoke to us of ay!

There in the smell of perfumed sweat we layTill we were rocked by sleep away, and came

Later to life, surprised to be so coolLying in April with summer so far away"#yeing the last cool flicker of the day!

II

$lue eyes in a long frown and the red

Slash of a mouth, cheeks hard, high,

The sly arrogance of a fine line and a fineTight waist, you speak to me, leaning

%orward in e&citement, a bit unedged perhaps,

A bit aware of the unedged leaning, you'now what you say in unaware spurts of your

$lack intensity and what you do!

Love done, you lean back on the pillow, nowSide seeing the blue light on the s(uared ceiling,

)naware the meaning of the sight, seeing

Sideways the block of a chilled room in dead

*inter! Hot in the white sheet, coolingHands on the sheet edge, the rumpled

*aist resting in a momentary

Pause from hot desire!

+ou love!!!!!!not me, but the hot impulsef a rush thrust in the white light shining,

And - know, - know what the strong desireSays to the lean waist, but - know reclining

.n a cooler pillow of long years of such gaming,

Hot as you now, but the aim of the long yearsTells me to watch closely with a kind smile smiling!



III

The dark moon rushes from a cloud, breathes

$lack fire over the shadows of the trees,*hich falling in rippled shadows on the

$lack earth, stand reeling there*ith their agoni/ing arms paraly/ed in air,

*hile in the warm grass sunk in spikes of uncut hay- sleep as you reach a warm mouth on my waking eyes!

IV

#verything lies between the circle and the s(uare!

+ou touch my hand, - pull it straight away!+ou coil your hair gently around my shoulder!

How far and straight the train tracks lie,

*hile the wheels roll on from there to hereAnd off in a scurry! The flowers swing around

0angling on the straight stalk in the ground!

Living, we find life becoming circular but there

-s always that unforgiving s(uare!

V

*hen the moon swims slow in the velvet sky

y love lies near beside, and - slyly eye

Her milkwhite thigh on my hip, while the white

And staring moon glides on the velvet sky away!

VI

The pine cones tingle in the fond embrace

.f evening1s chill! as maple blows a kiss to birch,And mist of evening beds them softly down!

- drive away from all this harmony of trees,

$ack to my bed in town, to try to sleep alone!

VII

Love is for 2ancy you are very

*e have a real

+ou were in my room lying there+our eyes seemed to me

*e could be, but you feel so little

ore



*hy all the glances if

+our own captivity

Seeing your kinkling hair down your midback, -+ou can be horrid very much oh!

Try to hear this half bit piece of halves

Halves always and a chunk lost3ome swinging long steps to the garden, love

And hear the evening in!

Lie with me close and make one whole day realAnd if you like all whole make more with me

And chains of kisses panting in the night

The delicate smile of your eyes touching me

-f you like this$ut if, 2an, you do not, go!

-f you can never, stop,

but if

-!!!!!!!you!

VIII

Thinking how well she looks in dungarees

- can hardly see her in a cocktail loungeServing a drunk boor drinks and for a tip

Picking up eyes and thoughts of abuse!!!!$ut -,

+ou please me, girl, greatly, and for gratuity

All of my heart and priceless fantasies!

IX

A covenant between us from this moment

Love, to keep separate all our secret things

Together, and what we share,Share miserly! This secret eye, made public here

%or two and known to all, sees secretly!

Secrets are shared or secrets not at all!- shall be publicly private as the cell

.f any monk who sat and starved and stared

-n private at the universe, or stood

Tall on a tower to look upon the land!

X

Love, you are lovely far and near,

Sitting in clean isolation - hear

Rustle of your presence in another place!- have now lost the figure of your face



$ut not your footstep1s footfall in my ear

.r the breathing around your sheetfolded face!

A strong man about to run a long race- stand a wait a moment in my place

To hear the signal and to also hear

Something from someone else, far and near,4race, and a watcher who watches as - race,

2ot to speed me on but to see my face!

She races too a different, finer race,Like mine in part, subtler perhaps! 2ear

e, my love, more than your woman1s face,

- want your subtler, gau/ier pace!

%reely my heart and hands run far and near At last rid of the archetypal fear,

5 - give you strength, my love, and give me grace!

XI

y new love rarely speaks, talks spare,Lean! Her dark eyes

%lash indecision, (uestioning she feels

2ewly! Love in her black eyes%lashes! Small span of time and

Small the times of feeling full and fair

%lush of black love feeling! 2ow

See her bright litheness of waist and turning neck )ntil she whirls and in her black eyes bright

$reaks the edge with all her body1s smile!

XII

Tell me, . 0arling, where the magic grows!.ur age of bombs, hate, warfare and the air

Heavy with poison! The world is like the men

*ho foul it, obsolete before our time!These things have cloyed our patrimony and despair

Stands by the 6ail we live in! %rom your heart

Show me where still the magic fountains flow!

XIII

Lying awake all night - saw pure gold, 2ot yours perhaps nor hers, but all the same

4old in a glitter of thoughts shining on black

7elvet! *here was the alchemy which once made gold of lead"



*here came this vision of light and glittering"

-t came from nothing more than you to me!

XIV

8How strange the poison of a suspicious soul#yeing itself in fear! 9oin two, make three,

*ith plots and lots of chattelled mortgages

Heaped on you! $e free, recede!: - lie (uietly,ultiply the scores of secret pleasurings,

Hundreds of kisses and loving glancing eyes

Piling the numbers of wealth in love! $ut hideThe tally lest the he&ing crowd inspect the list

And curse our gaming with an evil, evil eye!

XV

*hen we are gone, and no one thinks of how

- have loved and you have tried to liveHonestly or a little less, or a little piece

ore, there will be mercy shown to new shrived souls

That struggled in their incubation clothesAnd tried to breathe a little air to live

.r love a little! $ut you will be forgot

$ecause you tried to live a little moreAnd missed the loving a little more or less!

XVI

And if - love you, Love, and love you not

ore than - should, and can, and bear, yet not

ore than - should, and more than you would, but notore than you love me, and more than other do

*ho love long years of nights, losing the gleam

.f pierced emotions and e&acerbated souls,-1d love you still more than any sad soul knows

The pri/e or cure for, more than my sanity

Tells me is good and right, and not

erely enough, or 6ust sufficiently,$ut love as - breathe in love and breathe the air

%ree in the morning and long at evening time,

2ot as they do or when the world re(uires, 2o, but to ease my spirit running free,

*hich is life1s blood and work and life to me!

XVII



- will not help you magic moment make, longer

And speak in tones of soft modulated poetry!

3lash and the clawing of blind mad nailsTearing the heart of stone from pith of flesh!

There is no magic growing in the forest green

*here you will find translations of the blood!

a little love goes a long way

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