To speak of love
is to render it tame;
so the word became flesh
and took again
the fiercer features of life;
took flight from the angels,
hid instead within
the brutish warmth
of mother-milk and frailty;
the love whose name
we dare to speak for fear
else of devouring one another.
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Yields more light in more readings. Best thing I can say about any poem. Thank you for writing — and posting — it.
Thank you, Roger.