Betrayal

Portrait of A.S.J. Tessimond
A.S.J. Tessimond 1902–1962

If a man says half himself in the light, adroit Way a tune shakes into equilibrium, Or approximates to a note that never comes:

Says half himself in the way two pencil-lines Flow to each other and softly separate, In the resolute way plane lifts and leaps from plane:

Who knows what intimacies our eyes may shout, What evident secrets daily foreheads flaunt, What panes of glass conceal our beating hearts?

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