Two Lovers

Close under here I watched two lovers once
Should have been a sin from what you say
I’d come to the beach to look for prawns
But the tide was out so I strolled away
And climbed the dunes to lie here warm face down
Watching the swimmers by the jetty-posts
Wrinkling like the bright blue wrinkling bay

Close under here I watched two lovers once
They were pale thin people, not often clear of town
Any fool could see they had to kiss
But your pet dunce didn’t quite know
Men count on more than that
And so they lay, and so just lay, patterning the sand.

And when they’d gone I went down
To the hollow place where they had been
But I never meant to tell the rest , or you, what I had seen

Elastic snapped when he jerked off her hat
I heard them arguing about the frock
But he thought she was bread
He thought that she was bread

Close under here I watched two lovers once
They were pale thin people, not often clear of town
Any fool could see that they had to kiss
I wished her legs were brown, oh I wished her legs were brown
And mostly , then, stared at the dawdling sea
Hoping Perry would row me some day in his boat
But not all the time, not all the time

And when they’d gone I went down
To the hollow place where they had been
But I never meant to tell the rest , or you, what I had seen
Though that night when I came in late for tea
I hoped you’d see the sandgrains on my coat
Close under here I watched two lovers once

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