Whimsical Boondoggle

“I should have thought
in a dream you would have brought
some lovely, perilous thing,
orchids piled in a great sheath,
as who would say (in a dream),
‘I send you this,
who left the blue veins
of your throat unkissed.’

…

‘Lover to lover, no kiss,
no touch, but forever and ever this.’”