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MRS PROTHEROE 

The Night Your Landlady Came To Your Room 

by Robert Davidson 

A loose gown in which her flesh swam free 
Fascinated 
Your eyes resting diffidently, the full white breasts 
The shadowed cleft 
Your mind searching the unknown 
Hesitated, resisted 
Locked within the closed circle of yourself. 

Broken into tears 
She moaned your name against your mouth 
Said her old man had deserted the year before. You saw 
Silver tears sliding down the sad moonlit face. 

She said you were too withdrawn within yourself = 
You kept to your room, too much alone, she said. And so lost 
Lying on your bed, reading Schopenhauer late at night 
You were reading everything yet could believe in nothing, you said. 

She clinging to you with her mouth 
Arousing. Inflaming flesh. You losing the will to resist 
You would solve the mystery of yourself, you thought 
As your bodies took the shapes of passion 
You would come out of yourself in this long waited moment. 

She searching your boy's body for the lost images of youth 
The skin stretching transparently on your ribs 
She making a moaning, loving sound 
While taking the taste of you with her tongue - 
And you holding tightly the muscles of her plump white thighs 
As interlocked her body became as one with yours. 

When you opened your eyes 
Your room. your books still preserved their apparent shapes 
Despite long shadows in pools of early morning light 
She was as a rock to which we cling, you thought 
She was the rock of love 
On which we all have founded, you further thought. 

And as you wandered deeper into yourself, no longer lost 
You felt you'd slithered down a solid slope. sensible 
Of a dream-time womb in smooth transparent skin 
While she lay prone and spent on you - 
And for a moment you felt as wise as God. 

Love? - an equation for two bodies - 
Or the subtler colloquy of disparate souls? 

Copyright 2005 


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