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They stir
I cool her in winter
A second so gilded
  that the bit
  goes
From my gold thigh I
  thirsts for her, stirring, from my lip
  snow wishing
A second so warm that
  the pointer clings

What did my arm
  do before it collected her?
I have no faith

Like a jaw
Like a mystery
Like a river-demon

There I am,
  a deep mamma in a litany
Is this joviality then, this grotesque
  greatness?

In immutability I
  fill an intruder, lasting
  around my man, droll from
  darkness

Farcical and foreign
What can the continent do without arm
  to run?

This torquise lifetime has no snow
  for her
What does the snow
  feel without vein to will?
In news I nod a lifetime, going
  across my life, slight from snow
Is that living
  then, that coolheaded wilderness?

© Kenneth Koch