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Remembering
When all
the poems on the theme have been written
And all the night and day Dreams dreamt without prophecy or fulfillment
When hope sustains us no longer
Nor being drunk or busy or therapeutically in love keeps us from
remembering
When we
have forgotten even why we parted if we ever knew it at all
Remembering however when we could be warm together
Kiss though with a cold
When even baby talk became you. Yes
And everything I said was sweet or funny and everything you did
was beautiful
I keep
your eyes by Heart after the very first reading
I could repeat them in detail
Remembering their elements in pearls and moon stones
In the dark wings of a starling and the bright morning faces of
asters
I learned your hair many ways by the musk and visually by the
Braille touch
After one fitting only I could cup my hands just so as If they
held your face
Blindfolded
I could kiss a thousands mouths and know your lips
I could tell time by your mouth kisses feel rich red colors
Taste sun- ripe fruits and know the seasons of the year
I took
your body like a glass of sweet milk at bedtime
And my eyelids let go at the hinges when I loved you
When you were all I and all of me was you
My season rhymed with you season and our bodies made music
And gave light and all things absolute
I have
looked to long upon you to long
And with so much love that strangers can see you in my face
As the sun and vivid colors leave a after image in the eyes
Everyone
is sleeping nothing wakes the woods are motionless
The wind is down to a whisper sleep hums like current
Yes audibly through the bright steel night
The evening star rises like a flaming wick
Hills
fit into hills like lovers their great dark straddling thighs
Clasping still greater darkness where they meet
A star breaks arcs down night like God striking a match across
The cathedral ceiling
Therefore
I wish see my lips move making your name
It is so still so still I am sure that you must hear me
Each time
I know beauty it shall be through you
When joy lifts me high or sorrow breaks me
When I love again my senses conditioned to you
Will be forgetting you anew
Each kiss that fills my
Mouth shall fill it with your lips
Each time my eyelids crumble and close
Under bloods fire impact when love strikes home yours will be
the mouth
And yours the disengaging arms
I will
be forgetting you in silence and in song
In silence will I dream dreams of you
To wonderful to dare aloud and the words
I shall not use for anyone but you I shall make poems
When a
star falls I shall wish for you
When the moon is new I shall wish for you
When a bird looks into my window when a leaf falls before me
When I find a fern in flower
I shall
wish for you
The Diary
of Walter Benton
Was originally published Feb 1, 1943
And have been reprinted fifty-nine times
As of March of 1999
Walter Benton worked on a farm and a steel mill,
As a window washer and as a salesman
Before he entered Ohio University in 1931.
Walter Benton Diary was dedicated
To Lillian
This Man of Great Love and words Died 1976
The fabulous
voice behind Walter Benton's Words
Is Arthur Prysock
It was recorded Dec 16, 1968
In Los Angeles
I have
enjoyed this great marriage
Of words and music for twenty-six years
And now with the Internet I get to share it with you
I hope you enjoy this work of art as much as I have
