Desiderata
Sense of shared space, shared purpose
(A help meet, a garden, work to do)
Destiny, to drive us
More destiny, more desire, hunger to drive us
Some stock
A larder
Common enemies
or none
Invisible
The good will to keep them invisible
Separate
A fence
Scruples, for when there seems to be no purpose or way,
before a purpose or way is found
Some time alone in the PM, before dinner after lunch
Also in the morning, just before
Different projects to show us that we are accomplished
individually as well as jointly
Proximity
(At night esp we must sleep together it must not be unseemly
uncomfortable disturbing in any way)
At other times, perceived closeness but not actual
(For what is actual but easy perception:
I just look around and you are with me)
A pot for my black moods
A pot with a lid (a seismograph) for yours
A dinner bell
Courtesy
(Borne not out of diffidence, but respect)
Mutual concern/care
Affiliation
Tenderness
Attraction
Physical attraction for one another
Strong chemistry
(Like the attraction of Arethuse, or Penthesilea)
Attraction for the universe
A mountain
Reality (your thought should be like a mountain to me, you are)
A bowl of soup
Rice
Two bowls
More rice
More soup
A kettle to put all this on
Driftwood
More themes: more times: more locales:
Sandals
Atlas
Mesopotamia
A boat, to carry us in case of storm
A snowplow
A harbor
At the end, a haven free from worry
A room in the west, a room in the east
Secure against wind
A haven
Good restaurants around the corner serving hot food
24 hrs
Fresh
Quiet/classical music
Songs to make us forget suspicion
To make it go to sleep
To rouse the cloak of invisibility that we align ourselves in
No interstates
Or fewer
Less clocks
Much less despair in each other’s absence
More time to think it over
Overeager imaginations
(like dogs)
Intuitions (like cats)
The ability to read fortune cookies with the highest level of optimism
(In bed, in the dark, in the forest green)
And humor
Eucalyptus leaves for your back
Vaporub for your chest
Chapstick for your lips
Visine for you eyes
A balance of phobia like in the (animal) ‘cat’
That will run before predators
That will scratch and hiss
That will shed its fear, when cornered
Appetite for more things
More types of music
More art
More/different ways of seeing
More beliefs
More bodies
(More passion)
More comfortable silences
More
Books in all corners
Still lifes
Pots of paint
Open frames inside frames,
no pictures as yet
No faces
Tubs
Lush with scenery
Candles and grapes
Augmented portraits of bodies in relief or profile
Picasso’s blue period
Nothing clear yet
Praises for one another
Your raiment is fair
How like unto the lark is your voice
Meaningful vows
Readers who don’t infringe on us
Friends, neighbors, colleagues who don’t
A renewable and a year and a day contract
Renewable annually
Renewable mutually
Renewable
Held votives
Bath salts
Sundry items like:
Clothespins, needles, ice, ice-chips, matches,
cinnamon
Chewing-gum
Coins
A house with a central staircase and a vegetable garden
Two pretty dormers
Wraparound porch
Porch swing
A park sitting next door
Lake out back
Two lakes, or a fountain
Or something by the ocean
Something modern
Where we can speak and listen
A balm for forgetting
Rest for tomorrow