MS-UoR-1477-4

[0017] on the stone sitting together in the sun on the stone at the
edge of the little wood and as far as eyes could see the wheat or
whatever it was turning yellow there in the sun vowing every now
and again you loved each other that was the time not touching or
anything of that kind you one end of the stone she the other long
low stone like millstone no looks just sitting there in the sun wi
with the little wood behind you gazing at the wheat or eyes closed
no sign of life not a soul abroad

[0020] all still just the leaves and
ears and you too still on the stone in a kiⁿd of daze not speaking
only every now and again to vow you loved each other the one thing
could bring tears to your eyes till they dried up altogether that
thought when it came up among the others floated up that picture

[0023] of the two of you on the stone in the sun gazing at the wheat or
seeming to nothing else to be seen from where you sat but the sky
the wheat turning yellow and the blue sky vowing every now and
again you loved each other tears without fail till they dried up
altogether suddenly there in whateb^ver thoughts you might happen
y^to be having whatever visions perhaps way back in your boyhood
or the womb that was the worst of all ^{or that old Chinman born with the long white hair}

[0026] or just sitting by the win-
dow in the dark listening to the owl with not a thought in your
head till you began finding it hard to believe harder and harder
to believe you ever told anyone you loved them or anyone ever told
you till it grew to be one of those things you used to tell your-
self to keep the void out just another of those things you used to
keep telling yourself to keep the void from pouring in on top of
you

[0031] muttering that time sitting together in the sun and so on as yo
you went along or that til^me together on the towpath or that time
together in the dunes that time that time making it up from there
as best you could always together somewhere in the sun as you
went along or the hooting stopped died and not znother sound hour

[0031] after hour not a sound that time standing together on the towpath
facing downstream into the sun sinking and the bits of flotsam
coming from behind and drifting on or caught in the reeds the dead
rat it looked like that day time came on you from behind and went
drifting on till you could see it no more

[0034] no sight of the face or
any other part never turned to face her nor she to you always
parallel like on an axle-tree never turn to each other just blurs
on the fringes of the field no touching or anything of that kind
always space between if only a few inches no pawing to see were
you flesh and blood no better than figments if it wasn't for the
vows

[0037] ^{stock still} always stock still like that time on the stone or that time
in the dunes stretched out parallel in the sun gazing up at the
blue with the glider or eyes closed blue dark blue dark stock still
side by side picture float up and there you ^were wherever it might be

[0039] stock still side by side in the sun then sink and vanish without
your having stirred any more than the two knobs of a dumbbell ex-
cept the eyelids and the lips every now and again to vow and all
around too all sides all stilln all still all sides wherever it
might be no stir or sound only faintly the leaves in the little wox
wood behind you or the ears or the bent or the reeds as the case
might be of man no sight or sound

[0045] or alone in the same the same
scenes alone wherever they might be making it up that way to keep
going keep it going keep it out on the stone for example alone on
the end of the stone with the wheat and blue or or stock still on
the towpath with the ghosts of the mules watching the drowned rat

[0045] or bird or whatever it was floating off into the sunset till you
could see it no more stock still nothing moving only the water and
the sun going down till it went down and you vanished all vanished

[0048] or that time alone on your back in the dunes for example and no
vows breaking the peace when was an earlier time a later time be-

[0048] or that time alone on your back in the dunes for example and no
vows breaking the peace when was an earlier time a later time be-