The Kiss

Janis Rapoport
From:   Within the Whirling Moment. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1967

from the sculpture by Rodin


Those lovers linked in bronze

will not escape the wonder

of their first embrace.

Today's passion is blown of air

not hewn in stone:

a fragmenting spiral

within the whirling moment.

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