Marge Piercy
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To Have Without Holding: Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, lovewith the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the roomsrustling the sheets and snapping the blindsthat thwack like rubber bandsin an open palm. It hurts to love wide openstretching the muscles that feelas if they are made of wet plaster, then of blunt knives, thenof sharp knives. It hurts to thwart the reflexesof grab, of clutch, to love and letgo again and again. It pesters to rememberthe lover who is not in the bed, to hold back what is owed to the workthat gutters like a candle in a cavewithout air, to love consciously, conscientiously, concretely, constructively. I can't do it, you say it's killingme, but you thrive, you glowon the street like a neon raspberry, You float and sail, a helium balloonbright bachelor's buttons blue and bobbingon the cold and hot winds of our breath, as we make and unmake in passionatediastole and systole the rhythmof our unbound bonding, to haveand not to hold, to lovewith minimized malice, hungerand anger moment by moment balanced.
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The old plural of Eye.
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