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Winning by a hair: ‘Bouffant Belles’, Track Club of Abilene, Texas 1964

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   Before you kissed me only winds of heaven
   Had kissed me, and the tenderness of rain–
   Now you have come, how can I care for kisses
   Like theirs again?

   I sought the sea, she sent her winds to meet me,
   They surged about me singing of the south–
   I turned my head away to keep still holy
   Your kiss upon my mouth.

   And swift sweet rains of shining April weather
   Found not my lips where living kisses are;
   I bowed my head lest they put out my glory
   As rain puts out a star.

   I am my love’s and he is mine forever,
   Sealed with a seal and safe forevermore–
   Think you that I could let a beggar enter
   Where a king stood before?

– Sara Teasdale ‘The Kiss’

[ Kiss – Edvard Munch ]