«One flesh», d'Elizabeth Jennings from mon re ja Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 1 min 43 sec
✓ Published: 05-Aug-2009

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ONE FLESHnnLying apart now, each in a separate bed, nHe with a book, keeping the light on late,nShe like a girl dreaming of childhood,nAll men elsewhere - it is as if they waitnSome new event: the book he holds unread,nHer eyes fixed on the shadows overhead.nnTossed up like flotsam from a former passion,nHow cool they lie. They hardly ever touch,nOr if they do it is like a confessionnOf having little feeling - or too much.nChastity faces them, a destinationnFor which their whole lives were a pre