Poems seem to disturb the spirits--once at Gogarty's when I was reading out my Calvary and came to the description of the entrance of Lazarus, the door burst open as if by the blast of wind where there could be no wind, and the family ghost had a night of great activity. From all which you will see that I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind--sex and the dead.
--W. B. Yeats, to Olivia Shakespear, October 2 (or 4) [Postmark 1927]
I learned to lean on one side
and ingest the waves of luna
I learned to lie in the space
of the hollow of your body
What did you learn, winter
window with your curtains
Did you weep with loving
someone like me or was it
no one's business, not mine
who taught you to fuck sex
when I went over into death
and left you with your boys
Today was your birthday love
forever too far off to be young
Floyce Alexander
(August 28, 2014)
to her
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