Women in Love
It always comes, and when it comes
they know.
To will it is enough to take them
there.
The knack is this, to fasten and
not let go.
Their limbs are charmed; they cannot
stay or go.
Desire is limbo--they're unhappy
there.
It always comes, and when it comes
they know.
Their choice of hells would be the
one they know.
Dante describes it, the wind circling
there.
The knack is this, to fasten and
not let go.
The wind carries them where they
want to go.
and that seems cruel to strangers
passing there.
It always comes, and when it comes
they know.
The knack is this, to fasten and
not let go.
--Donald Justice