from Levertov’s “About Marriage:”
Don’t lock me in wedlock, I want
marriage, an
encounter—I told you about the
green light of
May(a veil of quiet befallen
the downtown park,[…]
and the birds I met there,
birds of passage breaking their journey,
three birds each of a different species:[…]
I stood
a half-hour under the enchantment,
no-one passed near,
the birds saw me andlet me be
near them.)It’s not
irrelevant:
I would be
metand meet you
so,
in a greenairy space, not
locked in.
I promised my dear friend Angela some wedding-poems.
The video is Strange Fruit, performing “Swoon,” I think, which enchanted me at Bumbershoot 2008.
