The ache of marriage:thigh and tongue, beloved,are heavy with it,it throbs in the teethWe look for communionand are turned away, beloved,each and eachIt is leviathan and wein its bellylooking for joy, some joynot to be known outside ittwo by two in the ark ofthe ache of it.
-Denise Levertov
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