One.
Where are you going, my love?
Where have you been?
I have been to the kitchen and back
-to the living room.
I climbed the walls of our garden -
a copper penny
under my tongue
to buy you from the dead.
I knew you had gone.
Where are you going, love?
Where have you been?
My hands are as pale and white
as the stars.
They live in the water
- you drown me
before my time.
Where have you been my love?
Where are you going?
Wherever, I tell you, I have
been there and back again.
It is better here.
When we are together
- a copper penny pressed between us.
Loneliness is what I do
without you.
Two.
I climbed our garden wall, love.
I could not go as I am,
so I left my clothes behind -
folded like sleeping pilgrims on our bed.
The brambles tore my skin.
I left my coat as well, you see.
Outside the gates,
I left my shoes -
their empty shape
was so like my own.
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