Relations Quotes

“Now the two of us here in the dark
have let the fire die slowly down, and it’s your body
I want to see with the curtains open and the half-moon
pressed against the window—your long pale body
smoldering on top of the sheet, glowing beside mine
while we warm ourselves again in the heavy world
of matter, catching fire at the fire we make of our lives.

—Eamon Grennan, from “On Fire,” Relations: New & Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 1998)”
― Eamon Grennan, Relations: New and Selected Poems