Sinking like sediment through the day
Philip Arthur Larkin
1922 to 1985
Sinking like sediment through the day
To leave it clearer, onto the floor of the flask
(Vast summer vessel) settles a bitter carpet -
Horror of life.
Huge awareness, elbowing vacancy,
Empty inside and out, replaces day.
(Like a fuse an impulse busily disintegrates
Right back to its root.)
Out of the afternoon leans the indescribable woman:
'Embrace me, and I shall be beautiful' -
'Be beautiful, and I will embrace you' -
We argue for hours
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