Love Overheard

The interior of a relationship is strangely grotesque.
it resembles a vivisection –
taken organ by organ,
they are foul sights for disconcertion
but as a whole,
          well,
                    goddesses of beauty abound.
in that return to child speak
          and
      incest,
          a
noble display –
either
contentment,
                              or
resentment,
we not in the circle
conclude ourselves the better,
but intellect lost the garden
as surely as
man

thought

to take a woman.
what mind have we
when understanding
destroys the beauty of the
understood
so that now
          we know
          it was not
Eden after all.

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