secrecy

Secrecy

Had we been only lovers from a book
That holy men, who had a hand in heaven,
Illuminated: in a yellow wood,
Where crimson beast and bird are clawed with gold
And, wound in branches, hunt or hawk themselves,
Sun-woman, I would hide you as the ring
Of his own shining fetters that the snake,
Who is the wood itself, can never find.


-Austin Clarke