OUT

Nathaniel Burt

Read by Roma Lizza Romero

Let’s go play in the sun

You and I, hand in hand on the beaches

…At night, over our whispers, hear the sea.

Let’s look into the light,

Smiling, squinting our eyes;

You can shake out your hair

O, into the salt and gleaming wind

And we shall not go back, not look inside,

Close up the starless closet, throw the key.

Let’s drop all thoughts, all deaths, all duties;

Let’s clean as a shell, like the sand blown free

Be tossed spendthrift, become pure and bare,

Become so shining that we ceased to be.

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