Liber Saturni - Chapter 71

Verses

Verse 27

I loved you first because you were impossible to visit.

Verse 28

Desire enjoys architecture.

Verse 29

Then telescopes improved and you became weather, rings, moons, chemistry.

Verse 30

I loved you more.

Verse 31

Knowledge did not ruin the mystery; it gave mystery better bones.

Verse 32

Saturn, your beauty is ridiculous: debris arranged like jewelry around a world without a surface.

Verse 33

If I could stand there, I could not stand there.

Verse 34

This is an excellent foundation for romance.

Verse 35

My friends choose partners who text back.

Verse 36

I choose a planet requiring over an hour for light to carry an answer, depending on where we both are.

Verse 37

A jinn offered transportation.

Verse 38

I declined after reading the terms.

Verse 39

He wanted three memories and my sense of north.

Verse 40

I need at least one of those.

Verse 41

So I remain here, faithful in the least practical way.

Verse 42

Sometimes love should build a house.

Verse 43

Sometimes it should simply improve the quality of looking.

Verse 44

You have done the second.

Verse 45

Do not come closer.

Verse 46

Distance is part of your face.

Verse 47

If all longing were satisfied, poets would have to learn useful trades.

Verse 48

I am protecting employment.

Verse 49

Circle on, beloved.

Verse 50

I will wave when the sky is clear.