my beloved,
you're mine (possessed)
the third and last chance, broken sight
and my last throw, taking everything apart

if I had some, some (pretty animal)
I would anything for you (simile)
but I'm not getting any slimmer despite
these special pants

would you smile across the road
through the wheels, windows, wheels
and if I had my way
I wouldn't work here any more (would you?)

yet softly out walking through the dahlias
I go (dream) beyond air and tongue
my and your perfumed fingers
drag more shiningly (meaning less happy)

but each one of me
holds in its hand,
and every bit of all of them
the things I couldn't do, my beloved

my beloved,
you're mine (possessed)
the third and last chance, broken sight
and my last throw, taking everything apart

if I had some, some (pretty animal)
I would anything for you (simile)
but I'm not getting any slimmer despite
these special pants

would you smile across the road
through the wheels, windows, wheels
and if I had my way
I wouldn't work here any more (would you?)

yet softly out walking through the dahlias
I go (dream) beyond air and tongue
my and your perfumed fingers
drag more shiningly (meaning less happy)

but each one of me
holds in its hand,
and every bit of all of them
the things I couldn't do, my beloved

Oh, the beloved belongs to no
one, is herself so self-possessed,
her hand of coolest mountain
stream in hand goes off

always to her own laughter,
in other rooms, so full of flowers,
that when she's lifting several
bouquets out of the car,

she turns and asks me,
what do you think, oh, should
I mix them altogether,
and I say, no, just gift

them as they are, other hands
will trouble them into vases
in other rooms, and cannot
think of her as pretty animal

or party flower, even that dahlia
of red she wears, without
wincing in shame upon myself,
how is it I could see her so?

she is her own, she is no other's,
I let her go, she lets me go,
though not without first sweeping
into fierce wings, so winging

away, so winging back,
there is nothing I would not do
to leave her free, so
self-possessed