A Poem From The Year

“The Ache of Marriage” by Denise Levertov:

The ache of marriage:

thigh and tongue, beloved,

are heavy with it,

it throbs in the teeth

We look for communion

and are turned away, beloved,

each and each

It is leviathan and we

in its belly

looking for joy, some joy

not to be known outside it

two by two in the ark of

the ache of it.

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(Poems 1960-1967 ©1966 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Image of Denise Levertov via Wikimedia Commons)