Digital Manuscript ProjectThat Time / Cette fois
[0039] [never stirring] [never a stir xx you] except
every now & again the
mouth to say you
loved each other
[0031] that time together on the towpath with the
stream [and] [and] [⁁]into the [huge] sun [going sinking and the
down][xx xxx] bits of flotsam
catching up on you and carried
away or caught in the reeds the
dead rat it looked like that day
that caught up on you and drifted
on till you could see it no more [never]
[0034] never clear what she looked like
never seemed to look at each other [turned] seemed to look at her nor she at you
always side by side facing front like
at the two ends of an axle tree
[couldn't] [couldn't] turn your heads
to look at each [oth] for a look at
each other [xxx] [nothing more no better than] two blurs [xx xxx the
edge of the fields] at the limits of
the fields
[0034] never clear what she looked like
never [seemed] turned to look at her nor
she at you always parallel like
[axle-tr] on an axle-tree couldn't turn
your heads for a look at each other
no better than two blurs at the
limits of the field[s]
[0034] no touching or anything of that
kind always [xx xxx] space between if
only a few inches no reaching out feeling to to
with the hands see were you flesh
and blood no better than two wraiths
if it wasn't for the odd coo out of you
[0037] [never moving] always [dead] stock still like in a daze
like that time on the stone or
that time in the sandhills stretched
out parallel in the sun gazing up
at the blue sky or [xx] the eyes
closed now the one now the other
[xxx xx xxx] blue dark blue dark
[0039] stirred any more than the two
knobs on a dumbbell except
the eyelids and every now &
again the [mouths] lips to say [you][r]
[loved each other] piece
[0039] [all around] [⁁]xxxish all around too all still [⁁]all aroun all sides wherever
it might be [nothing stirring] [not a no stir nor sound
sound only]
only the leaves [but] only faintly the
leaves or the [rushes] bent or the
stream against the bank as the case
might be [no sign or] trace of man no trace of man
[xxx]
[0039] without your having stirred
except but for the [eyes the
eyes] eyelids and the mouths
every now & again to say
you loved each other
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