handinhand

Handinhand

By

Bryan
Sanctuary 1964

(influenced
by E. E. Cummings)

and said i to her
as on we walked,

            ‘the
sun is real

                        and the moon

a ghost, a naïve reflection of the sun’

again said i,’ i
believe, believe i, that all

   is as the

            ghostly

                        girl,

                                    not real,’

 but still we walked handinhand

but she to i, ‘how
do you know as

            i am here and you

                        i feel your touch,

i taste your lips

that’s real.

and still we
walked, arminarm.

said i ‘but what is
truth, and what is real,

            for we conceive them both,

                        the answers fleet, we
cannot know

but still we
walked, handinhand.