Be, as you have been, my happiness; Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.

A bat is born Naked and blind and pale. His mother makes a pocket of her tail And catches him. He clings to her long fur By his thumbs and toes and teeth. And …

The new masters paint a subject as they please, And Veronese is prosecuted by the Inquisition For the dogs playing at the feet of Christ, The earth is a planet…

Animals, these beings trapped As I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap, Aging, but without knowledge of their age, Kept safe here, knowing not of death, f…

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

Picture you upon my knee, Just tea for two and two for tea

I'm not trying to turn you into a bourgeois, Naomi. If the bed is too luxurious, we can do it on the floor.