Slowly I marry her

Kärleken, logos, elden, hoan är alltid havande. En spricka, ett sår, en öppningsgest och förlossningen, in- och utkrängningen, sätts igång och bröllopet förbereds... slowly I married her slowly and bitterly married her love married her body, in boredom and joy slowly I came to her slow and resentfully came to her bed came to her table in hunger and habit came to be fed slowly I married her sanctioned by none with nobody’s blessings, in nobody’s name amid general warnings, amid general scorn came to her fragrance, my nostrils wide came to her greed with seed for a child years in the coming and years in retreat slowly I married her slowly I kneeled and now we are wounded so deep and so well that no one can hurt us except death itself and all through death’s dream I move with her lips the dream is a night but eternal the kiss and slowly I come to her slowly we shed the clothes of our doubting and slowly we wed Leonard Cohen - my favourite psychopomp