Summary

The poem begins with the speaker describing her bed, saying it was a "spinning world" that took her and her lover to many different lands, including "castles," "cliff-tops," and "seas" (1-2). Her lover, she says, wrote words that became "shooting stars" before they reached her lips (4). She describes her own body as a rhyme and an echo of her lover's, while describing his touch as a grammatical construction: "a verb dancing in the centre of a noun" (7).

The speaker says that sometimes she would imagine her lover had written her and that the bed was a piece of paper. She muses that "romance and drama" were carried out through their own senses together (9-10). The other bed, she notes, was for the guests who would be "dribbling their prose" (12). She concludes the poem by saying that she remembers her husband by holding him in...