“Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;
What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.”
Theodore Roethke book The Far Field
"The Marrow," ll. 11-12
The Far Field (1964)
“It is the pain, it is the pain, endures.
Your chemic beauty burned my muscles through.
Poise of my hands reminded me of yours.”
"Villanelle" (1928), line 1; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 33.
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Your chemic beauty burned my muscles through.
Poise of my hands reminded me …" by William Empson?
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And it stings you for your pains;
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