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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 8. …After the wrestling…
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“Poem”
After the wrestling, when our mouths
Had kissed to heal their wounds,
And both sides victory gained, then peace was signed
And on my burning body you drew
With grateful hands the shining folds
Of a cloth stretching from head to heel,
Invisible liniments I wear,
Pressing my face against my arm
To touch and smell your body there.
—Stephen Spender,
1939
Peter Wever from his 1950 Embrace series
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