A kitchen moon. The ocean night.

By the sink the purest thing
 
that I can think is sitting:
like the ghost of a lighthouse
 
in Atlantic mist,
a full glass of skimmed milk.
 
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The wind outside is tugging
at the rigging of clematis
 
and the filled mast of the apple tree.
We are in bed, two by two,
 
and side by side as animals.
Bowsprit. Topcastle.
 
*

Love, I’d turn for you clean-living,
relinquish drinking, fighting, singing.
 
The ghost can only long in man.
You were asleep but talking.
 
Which way to the good?
At the next wet, we sail forth.