A Style of Loving, Vikram Seth
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Light now restricts itself
To the top half of trees;
The angled sun
Slants honey-coloured rays
That lessen to the ground
As we bike through
The corridor of Palm Drive
We two
Have reached a safety the years
Can claim to have created:
Unconsumated, therefore
Unjaded, unsated.
Picnic, movie, ice-cream;
Talk; to clear my head
Hot buttered rum - coffee for you;
And so not to bed
And so we have set the question
Aside, gently.
Were we to become lovers
Where would our best friends be?
You do not wish, nor I
To risk again
This savoured light for noon's
High joy or pain.
To the top half of trees;
The angled sun
Slants honey-coloured rays
That lessen to the ground
As we bike through
The corridor of Palm Drive
We two
Have reached a safety the years
Can claim to have created:
Unconsumated, therefore
Unjaded, unsated.
Picnic, movie, ice-cream;
Talk; to clear my head
Hot buttered rum - coffee for you;
And so not to bed
And so we have set the question
Aside, gently.
Were we to become lovers
Where would our best friends be?
You do not wish, nor I
To risk again
This savoured light for noon's
High joy or pain.
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Date: 2019-04-22 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-23 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-04-22 05:28 pm (UTC)(Incidentally, Seth came up in the Siddharth Dube memoir I was just reading; apparently they went to the same traumatic prep school, though Seth graduated before Dube started, and later became friends & co-activists.)
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Date: 2019-04-23 03:28 am (UTC)I've been loving the Dube extracts you've been posting, and have made a note to acquire it after I submit, because I can see I'll be an intense wreck while I read it.