Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Great Regulars: Now that I had lived with someone

for more than a very short while, I discovered I had come to understand more fully what those Bonnard paintings were about: that moment when one's beloved withdraws inward to attend to her interior life, even though you are present in the room. It's in such moments that a relationship can, paradoxically, feel most intimately entangled--the beloved suddenly recaptures that glow of mystery and distance a regular life together erodes; at the same time, she exudes a level of comfort and intimacy that is only possible after a period of living together.

from The Washington Post: Poet's Choice: 'Nude Asleep in the Tub' by Wayne Miller

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