"opened past your inch-close eyes"
Gunn, Larkin, Sexton, Dickinson, Harrison
Thom Gunn:
Philip Larkin:
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Anne Sexton:
Emily Dickinson:
Touch lightly / Nature's sweet / Guitar / Unless thou / know'st the / Tune
Or every / Bird will / point at / thee / Because a Bard too soon
[That wert a Bard too soon The Bard to silence born——]
Leslie Harrison:
Peter Gabriel, “I Have the Touch,” September 6, 1982:
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This weekend I had a enlightening conversation where my aunt worried about the health of my 97 year old grandmother. Grandma is living alone and my aunt worries very much that there isn't enough people there to touch. A hug or a handshake a pat on the back or a kiss. I find your post very timely. Go give something you love a caress.
That Thom Gunn poem is incredible