LOVELOOK BACK

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116-117 LOVELOOK BACK Bubble in you swells beneath my touch, like air I rode when but a boy flying on my horse of painted wooden sticks gulping wind and jumping continents aiming bit and bridle at the tops of trees. Look of you tucked in around your eyes is mystery of books high on the shelf my tallest ladder never reached, is words I wondered wide-eyed in the night when bedroom forms seemed more than chairs hung down with blue jeans, rug curled up by shoes. Sounds that lap me in curtains of your breathing bring ocean-distance that my prairie years, in stretching long ago, found borderland where thirst and drink where same, where bloodbeat rhythm urged the way to walk a corner, linger near a skirt, speak of graceful hunger. You are cliff and precipice to hug my narrow path that swayed through windy stems and darkened in the sun, that turned from cave I stored with candy licked until imagination had undressed the town; you are meadow too for sinking falls and softest echo in the feel of grass. Rise of you in slow-leaving taking of the room in gleam of breast and shoulder through tiptoe dark is body-cover for buds of secret talk I used to bloom in spaces of my mind where silent girls slow sung their legs and played their eyes across my brow. Leave-taking now is tender part of you I dare not touch but with this hand that once waved to the hills. 1972 1978

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Poem written by Emanuel in 1972/1978 where the narrator fondly thinks of his lover, comparing her to beautiful natural imagery and literature.

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  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    663 kB
  • container title
    James A. Emanuel Papers
  • creator
    James A. Emanuel
  • issue
    BOX 4 FOLDER 27, "The Chopping Block (Selected Poems), draft, 1988 (2 of 2)
  • rights
    James A. Emanuel Estate
  • rights holder
    James A. Emanuel Estate
  • version
    1972/1978