Great Regulars: Two people are not exactly alike.

They're "turned away" from each other. Yet she's speaking to a "beloved." Twice she uses that word.

So we're caught in the belly of the leviathan that is marriage. Ah, there's the thing--she says there's a joy in marriage that can't be found anywhere else. That's why we're held in its belly.

from Fleda Brown: Traverse City Record-Eagle: On Poetry: Feeling from belly to teeth
also llama: The Ache of Marriage [by Denise Levertov]

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