Perhaps it is to feel strike (CP 216)

XLI Poems (1925)

XIIperhaps it is to feel stirkethe silver fish of her nakednesswith fins sharply pleasant,my

youth has travelled toward her these years

or to snare the timid likeof her mind to my mind that i

am come by little countries to the yes

of her youth.And if somebody hearswhat i say—let him be pitiful:because i’ve travelled all alonethrough the forest of wonderful,and that my feet have surely knownthe furious ways and the peaceful,

and because she is beautiful.

from XLI Poems (1925)